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A Warning to America. 



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FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED." 



THE 



Secret 



INSTRUCTIONS OF THE 



Jesuits. 



THE JESUITS ARE THE SWORN ENEMIES OF 
AMERICAN LIBERTY. 



Read this "wonderiul Book 
and be instructed. 






THE SECRET INSTRUCTIONS 



OF 



THE JESUITS. 



A WARNING. 

Is one to be laughed at as an alarmist for soundhio' out a note 
of warning, when bisliops and cardinals, representing a vast army 
of ten millions of communicants, speak out against the Constitu- 
tion of the Republic in such threatening words ? I repeat, the 
war has actually begun, and the struggle will be fierce and long. 
In the end one of two things must come to pass; vi'^., either the 
public school system will have been destroyed, or the autocratic 
system of Ultramontanism will have been driven out of this nation 
forever. For if the public schools are maintained, Ultramontan- 
ism must be destroyed; these two deadly enemies cannot live 
tiQgeXher, 

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THE 



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OF 



THE JESUITS. 



IN LA TIN A ND ENGLISH. 



WITH AN HISTOKICAL SKETCH BY 



REV. W.' C^BROWNLEE, D,D. 



PUBLISHED BY 




THOMAS E. LEYDEN, 



EVANGELIST, 



BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. 

1888. 



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By Thomas E. Leyden. 



TO THE PUBLIC 



This work is presented to the American people in the 
hope that it will aid in the good work of enlightenment, 
and help in preserving and purifying our Eepublican in- 
stitutions from the blighting influences of foreign eccle- 
siasticism, which, under the guise of religion, has cor- 
rupted and polluted every country and people wherever 
permitted to establish itself. 

Americans, heed the warning ere it be too late. Ro- 
manism and Jesuitism are inseparable; where one is 
there the other may be found secretly working to sub- 
vert and enslave. 

Eead this book; help spread it throughout the land 
that our countrymen may be forewarned — '^ forewarned 
is fore-armed.'' 

The proceeds from the sales of this work are devoted 
to the spread of the Gospel among Eoman Catholics, and 
unmasking the true aims and purposes of the Eoman 
hierarchy — the destruction of our Public school system, 
and the establishment of Eomanism as a State religion 
in America to the exclusion of all others. 

Yours, for God and Country, 

THOMAS E. LEYDEK 



[By the courtesy of Eey. James B. Dunn, D.D., the fol- 
lowing letter from the Secretary of the American and Foreign 
Christian Union, speaks for itself, and fully authorizes our 
publication of this work,] 



Glen Summit, Pa., 

Sept 1, 1888. 

Dear Brother: — Yours of August 30th has just 
reached me, and you are authorized to re-publish the 
work on the Jesuits, to which you refer. Many 
hearts, in other parts of the land, are in sympathy 
with you in your courageous opposition to the attack- 
ing forces of Romanism. 

Yours sincerely, 

L. T. CHAMBERLAIN, 

Sec^y American and Foreign Christian Union, 

The Rev, James B, Dunn^ D,D. 



Thomas E. Leyden, 

Evangelist, 



HISTORICAL SKETCH 

OF 

THE JESUITS. 



** Swear — forswear — and the truth deny!'' 
*' Jura, per jura, veritatemque denega!" 

— Jesuit maxim. 

The Society of the Jesuits was founded in 1540, 
just eleven years after the Christian church had come 
out of the Roman sect, and assumed the name of 
Protestants. The singular originator of the new or- 
der was Ignatius Loyola, a native of Biscay. He 
had, when a soldier, received a severe wound in the 
service of Ferdinand V. of Spain, in 1521 ; and he 
had been long confined in a place where he had ac- 
cess, probably, to no other books than The lives of the 
Saints, It is not to be wondered at that his mind 
was thence turned away from military enthusiasm to 
ghostly fanaticism. When recovered, he speedily 
gave proofs of his insane fanaticism by assuming the 
name and office of "Knight of the Virgin Mary." 
And like a good type of the future Don Quixote, he 
pursued with solemn gravity, a course of the wildest 
and most extravagant adventures, in the belief that 
lie was her most exalted favorite. Having conceived 
the plan of a new monastic order, he submitted the 
constitution thereof to Pope Paul HI. And he as- 
sured his " Infallibility and Holiness," that the plan 
and constitution were given to him by an immediate 



6 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 

revelation from Heaven. This he no doubt deemed 
necessary to be on a footing of equality with the 
other orders. For, as Dr. Stillingfleet has shown, 
every order of monks and nuns in Rome has been or- 
dained by visions, and inspirations from Heaven.* 

The pope hesitated. Loyola took the hint, and 
had another convenient inspiration, and added to the 
three usual vows of the monastic orders of chastity, 
poverty, and obedience, a fourth vow, namely, abso- 
lute subservience to the pope ; to do whatever he 
enjoined, and go on any service he wished, and into 
any quarter of the globe. 

This the pope could not resist; especially at a 
time when the Reformation had convulsed his seat, 
and shaken his empire to the foundation. He accord- 
ingly issued his bull of confirmation, and sent them 
out to invade the world. Their object was diverse 
from that of all other orders. Monks professed to 
retire from the world, and macerate the body. The 
Jesuits set out to conquer the world to the pope. 
The monks hoped to conquer the flesh — but they did 
it by acting contrary to the laws of nature, and the 
gospel of Christ. The Jesuits aimed at an universal 
dominion over the souls and bodies of men, to bind 
them as vassals to the pope's chariot wheels. The 
monks professed to combat in private, the devil, the 
world and flesh; although they did it in the exact 
way to make themselves the slaves of the flesh and 
the devil. The Jesuits were the soldiers of the 
pope : tliey knew no law but the will of their gen- 

* On the Idolatry of the Church of Rome, chap. iv. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 7 

eral ; no mode of worship but the pope's dictate ; no 
church but themselves. And the mass-god which 
their head at Rome set before them in the wafer was 
the idol of their adoration. They were also ex- 
tremely indulgent to their heathen converts, — the 
Chinese, for instance. They allowed them to con- 
tinue the worship of their ancestors, and light can- 
dles, and burn incense before their images ; they im- 
posed on them no other burden than to give to these 
deceased Chinese the names of the Roman saints, 
such as St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Mary! These the 
converts had on their lips, while their heart's homage 
was given to their ancestors. Thus they converted 
them by stealth, and saved them by deception and 
idolatry ! 

Among the Indians of our great West they not 
only suppressed the truths of Christianity, but de- 
vised the most infamous fictions and falsehoods. 
'' One of them assured a native chief that Jesus 
Christ was just such a one as he would have admired. 
He was a mighty chief, a valiant and victorious war- 
rior, Avho had in the space of three years scalped an 
incredible number of men, women, and children." 
" Another, in the East Indies, produced a pedigree of 
himself, in which he clearly demonstrated that he 
was a lineal descendant of Brama ! " Brewster's En- 
cyclopedia, article Jesuit, vol. xi. 

Other papal orders were in a manner voluntary: 
at least their members had great liberties, and 
were not in abject submission to their abbot or supe- 
rior. But the sect of Jesuits were placed by Loyola 



8 HISTOJilCAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 

under a strict military and despotic government. In 
fact, the old wounded soldier took his^ laws and dis- 
cipline from his military experience. Like the mili- 
tary chief their general was chosen for life. To him 
every member was sworn on the cross, to yield an 
implicit obedience. Like the soldier, the Jesuit 
yielded up his body, and soul, and wishes, and desires 
to his general. He had no right to consult a friend, 
or exercise even his own judgment. The general's 
will was his will : he must go whenever their chief, 
residing at Rome, should dictate, — be it into Asia, 
or Africa, or any portion of the globe. He put no 
questions: he asked no reasons. The general was 
his sovereign god. He sailed with sealed orders. 
He must teach, — not Avhat he believed to be right. 
He had no choice of his faith. He must believe as 
his general regulated his heart, and soul, and con- 
science. He must do any deed enjoined on him, ask- 
ing no questions. He was not to shrink from any 
deed of blood. If the general enjoined, he must 
send the Spanish Armada to overthrow England : he 
must blow up the English parliament with gun-pow- 
der : he must assassinate King Henry of France, or 
shoot the the Prince of Orange : or poison Pope Gan- 
ganelli : or enjoin Charles IX. to perpetrate the St. 
Bartholomew massacre : and Louis XIV. to revoke 
the Edict of Nantz, and cover fair France with blood 
and havoc ; and fill the nations with the lamentations 
of her miserable exiles ! If he failed, he tried again 
and again. 

He stopped not short of his aim, until it was either 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. \) 

f 

accomplished or he died on the rack, as did the as- 
sassin of the King of France. And if he did perish, 
he was sainted ; as was Grarnet^ the Jesuit chief of 
Gunpowder plot ; who is to this day worshipped as 
St. Henry, m Spain.* 

The general had the uncontrolled right of receiv- 
ing and disbui^ing their immense funds ; and made 
every nomination to office ; and removed ^nj one he 
chose without assigning any reasons to any one. For, 
although nominally under the pope's power, the So- 
ciety exercised an unlimited power over the cardinals, 
and even over the Pope. Money, and Jesuit craft 
overcame all and enslaved all. They did what the 
kings of France did to the Pope ; and what Austria 
now is doing to his vassal, " the Holy Father." 
They flattered and caressed " the successor of St. 
Peter;" while they tied up his hands, and chained 
him in his chair of St. Peter. 

The whole Society was divided by their general 
into thirty-seven Provinces ; and a register lay be- 
fore him, containing the character of each novice, 
and of each fully initiated member: his talent, his 
tact, his activity, his defects, — everytliing relating to 
him. Hence the general had an accurate view of 
each instrument, in each field, ready for every emer- 
gency and task. " The Jesuits had missionaries for 
the villages ; and martyrs for the Indians," — says the 
writer of their history, in Brewster's Edinburgh En- 
cyclopsedia. " Thus a peculiar energy was imparted 
to the operations of this most singular society. The 

* Hume^s Hist, vol, iii, ch.' 46. 



10 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 

Jesuits are a naked sword, whose hilt is at Rome but 
its blade is everywhere, invisible until its stroke is 
felt." 

They soon found their way into schools, and 
sought most anxiously to gain the education of chil- 
dren, especially of Protestants. Their maxim was 
this : '' Give us the education of the children of this 
day, and the next generation will be ours, — ours in 
maxims, in morals, and religion ! " They found their 
way into colleges ; into theological institutions, as at 
this day in Oxford and other places. They pre- 
tended to be converted, and to enter into Protestant 
churches. They were found in the Reformed Church 
in France and Holland, and caused grievious and fa- 
tal divisions by false doctrine. They were found in 
the rank of the old English Puritans. This was dis- 
covered by a letter from the Jesuit confessor of the 
King of England to the Jesuit confessor of Louis 
XIV. '' How admirably our people imitate the Pur- 
itan preachers," said he in this intercepted letter. 

They adapted themselves to all kinds of character. 
With the Jew they were Jews to gain their object ; 
with the infidel they were sceptics ; to the immoral 
they were the most liberal and indulgent, until they 
gained the absolute ascendency over them. Hence 
they found their way into Kings' courts, and Queens' 
boudoirs. This sect gave confessors to the chief 
crowned heads of Europe. England, France, and the 
Waldenses, under the house of Savoy, felt this to their 
cost. It was in allusion to their utter disregard of 
morals, except where property and power were to be 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. ' 11 

gained by a show of morals, that the Abbe Boileau 
said with great truth, — " They are a sort of people 
who lengthen the creed, and shorten the moral law I" 

And for want of room, I must, without quoating it, 
refer the reader to the almost prediction of Dr. 
Browne, Bishop of Dublin, in 1551, respecting their 
character, their aims, their deeds and downfall. 
This is found in the Haiieian Miscellany, vol. v., 566 : 
and in Mosheim's Eccles. Hist. Cent. 16 ; sect. 3. part 
2. 

The success of this sect was at first very slow. In 
1540, when the frantic Loyola petitioned the Pope 
for a bull to establish this new papal army, he had 
only ten disciples. He was in nearly as hapless a 
condition as his equally moral, and equally christian 
brother, Mohammed. But they surmounted every 
difficulty for a season, by adapting their agents and 
members to every class. And particularly, they 
gained applause, and fame, and wealth, by cultivat- 
ing the arts and sciences : by diffusing the most ex- 
tensive taste for the classics, by their editions " In 
usum Delphini ; " for the instruction of the Dauphin, 
as the young heir apparent to the French throne, was 
then entitled. 

In fact, they soon supplanted every rival in the 
department of teaching. They seemed to gain the 
instruction of the youth in every European kingdom. 
They did for centuries exactly that which they are 
now attempting to do in the United States. They 
affected immense learning. All others knew noth- 
ing. They went in disguise into Protestant king- 



12 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 

doms and states. They set up schools ; or gained 
the Academic chairs ; and the professional chair. 
They won over the youth to their cause. Their fe- 
male Jesuits pursued the same course with the 
young and tender sex ; and made vast * numbers of 
converts to their sect. And these Jesuit nuns did 
not waste their energies and exhaust their pious 
emotions in dungeon cells and the grated prisons, 
which the want of due gallantry on the part of lay- 
men even among us, allow the aspiring and licen- 
tious priests to build for women, under their very 
eyes!!! No, they were out of door missionaries. 
They were known by the name of " Sisters of Char- 
ity," — " Sisters of the heart," and other sentimental 
and imposing names. They were female soldiers in- 
vading the sanctity of families ; " carrying captive 
silly women laden with iniquity " and ignorance. 
They fought among females as did their desperate 
male brothers among the males in the community. 

Forty-eight years after their organization, that is, 
in 1608, they had increased to the appalling number 
of nearly eleven thousand. Before the English Revo- 
lution of 1(588 they had obtained the direction of the 
schools, academies, colleges, and universities in all 
the European catholic continent ; and they had the 
address to have their members installed confessors to 
the Kings of Spain, France, Portugal, Naples, Aus- 
tri, Sicily, and the regal Duke of Savoy, and every 
leading prince and noble in these kingdoms. ' 

But they had driven on so furiously in their wild, 
ambitious, and bloody career, that innumerable ene- 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 13 

mies were raised up against them. The Jansenists 
were their deadly enemies in France. Pascal's ''Pro- 
vincial Letters," written with inimitable good humor, 
and in the most elegant style, attracted all scholars 
and politicians to their dangerous morality, their 
atrocious principles in politics ; and had inflicted a 
blow on the Jesuits from which they never recovered. 
Their disgrace took place first in France. They 
were dissolved and abolished in 1762 by the parlia- 
ment of France. And in this national act, the par- 
liament assigned the following as the reasons of their 
abolition : — " the consequences of their doctrines de- 
stroy the law of nature : they break all the bonds of 
civil society, by authorizing theft, lying, perjury, the 
utmost licentiousness, murder, criminal passions, and 
all manner of sins. These doctrines, moreover, root 
out all sentiments of humanity : they overtlirow all 
governments ; excite rebellion ; and uproot the foun- 
dation and practice of religion. And they substitute 
all sorts of superstitions, irreligion, blasphemy, and 
idolatry." 

Their overthrow in Spain was sudden and com- 
plete. At midnight, March 31, 1767, a strong cor- 
don of troops surrounded the six colleges of Jesuits 
in Madrid; seized the fathers, and before morning 
had them conveyed on the way to Carthagena. 
Three days after, the same prompt measures were 
pursued towards every other college in the kingdom. 
In a word, kingdom after kingdom followed up the 
same course of measures against these intolerable 
enemies of God and of men ! They have been ban- 



14 HISTOKICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 

ished either partially or entirely no less than thirty- 
nine times from the different kingdoms and states of 
Europe ! And in 1773, Pope Garganella— Clement 
XIV. — abolished the Order entirely, as a sect no 
longer to be endured by man ! ''It will cost me my 
life," said he, — ''but I must abolish this dangerous 
drder." It did cost him his life. A few daj^s after 
his Bull was published against the Jesuits, a notice 
was placarded on his gate intimating that* "the See 
would soon be vacant by the death of the Pope." He 
died of poison, within a few days of the time thus 
announced by their agency. He observed on his dy- 
ing bed to those around him, — " I am going to eter- 
nity : and I know for what ! " Brewster's Encycl. vol. 
xi. 171. 

But, although they were thus dissolved and abol- 
ished, they still kept up privately their organization. 
In the interim, from 1773 to 1801, their general re- 
sided at Rome, publicly. In 1801 they were restored, 
for some political reasons, by the Emperor Paul 
in Russia. This seems almost incredible. But 
this bad man and infamous emperor needed the 
support of the worst of all the Roman Catholic or- 
ders ! In 1804 the King of Sardinia, for the same 
reasons, restored them. In 1814, at the close of 
the late war. Pope Pius VII. who first crowned the 
Emperor Napoleon, and then ventured to excommu- 
nicate him, restored the order of Jesuits to their full 
powers and prerogatives in all particulars, and called 
on all papal princes in Europe, and the powers in 
South America, and in all the establishments of po- 



HISTOKICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 15 

peiy, " to afford them protection and encouragement," 
as the pope's right arm, and the superior and most 
successful instruments of extending Catholicism, and 
pulling down all heresies. 

Ill that papal bull, reviving this sect, the Pope 
even in this enlightened day utters his visionary 
claims in a style befitting the Dark Ages ! He af- 
firms that "this, his act, is above the recall^ or revision 
of any judge^ with whatever poioer he may he clothed.^'' 
He thus sets at defiance all the powers of all civil 
governments upon the earth. 

This order being thus revived, and covered with 
the shield of '' the master of the kings of the earth," 
is now in active operation ; and has been attended 
for the last twenty years with the most appalling 
success, in undermining the liberties of mankind ; 
corrupting religion, sowing dissentions in the 
churches ; and in aiding the Holy Alliance, in 
throwing '' a wall of iron around their kingdoms to 
prevent the entrance and dissemination of liberal 
sentiments." Their labors extend to every papal and 
every Protestant kingdom and state in Europe, and 
in South America, where they are the main cause of 
all these national convulsions and bloodshed, in order 
to prevent and put down all republicanism. They 
are also most active in Great Britain and the United 
States, which above all other nations they are most 
anxious to win, and woo over to papism. 

The revival of the order of Jesuits by Pope Pius 
Vir. in the face of the bull of another equally infalli- 
ble pope, who had condemned them, and abrogated 



16 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 

them, as a most pestiferous and infamous sect, ex- 
hibits a poor specimen of papal unity and infalliljility. 
And the act of Pope Pius VII. ought to have roused 
the indignation of all the friends of humanity, order 
and liberty in Europe and America. The following 
are the sentiments of an able writer (on this) in the 
London Christian Observer, vol. xiv.* '' What new 
witness has appeared to testify on behalf of Jesuit- 
ism? What adequate cause existed for its revival 
by a pope?" '^Jf an instrument is wanted to 
quench the flame of charity, and throw us back in 
the career of ages, and sow the seeds of everlasting 
divisions, and lay a train Avhich is to explode in the 
citadel of truth, and, if possible, overthrow her sa- 
cred towers, we venture confidently to affirm that 
Jesuitism is that very instrument. Until a proper 
reason be assigned other than this, we must conclude 
with our forefathers, with the kings, and queens, and 
parliaments, and judges, and churches of Europe, ay ! 
and with the decisive bull of the infallible Pope Gan- 
genelli, Clement XIV. that Jesuitism is a public nui- 
sance, and that he who endeavors, and dares to let it 
loose upon civil society, is actually chargeable with 
high treason against the common interests and happi- 
ness of the human family." See Brewster's Encycl. 
Article Jesuits, vol. xi. 172. 

Let me now advert briefly to the history of the 
following little book, which these statements are de- 
signed to introduce to our readers. 

The Secret Insteuctions formed a code of the 

* Pp. 175, 176. 



HISTOBICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 17 

laws of Jesuitism. They were not allowed to be 
made known even to many members of a certain 
class of Jesuits. They had bold, daring, bad men to 
achieve desperate deeds, and take off their enemies 
by steel or bullet, or poisoned chalice. These knev/ 
something that others did not. They had also dis- 
guised agents, men in mask. These Jesuits knew 
something not imparted to others of the same order. 
They had shrewd, crafty, courteous, and most pol- 
ished men, who courted nobles, insinuated them- 
selves into the favor of princes, kings, and rich wid- 
ows, and young heirs and heiresses. These had 
their " Instruction's " from their general. They 
had fine scholars, decent, steady, serious, moral men. 
These were not at all let into the secret of certaust 
Instructions. They were sent out as traps to cap- 
tivate the serious, the unsuspecting, the religious. 
These had it in charge to give a captivating repre- 
sentation of their Society of Jesus. These taught 
that they mingled in no politics, sought no riches, 
kept strictly their vow of poverty. Their sole object, 
was by the help of heaven, to convert the world, and 
put down Protestantism and all heresies ! And in 
these details these classes of this sect were honest. 
For they were not initiated into " the Secret Instruc- 
tions." And hence they could, with an honest con- 
science deny, and even swear on the cross, that no 
such Instructions were ever given, or iever received. 
And the initiated Jesuits took special care to push 
forward these decent, amiable, moral and trustworthy 
men, to declare to the world that no such rules, and 



18 HISTOKICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 

no such maxims as these of The Secret Instruc- 
tions ever existed among them. And from the 
high character of these men, their testimony was of 
great weight with kings, nobles, and even Protes- 
tants. 

This throws light upon the mystery and contradic- 
tory statements made by honest Jesuits and histori- 
ans ; and by Protestants. The profligate, the cunning, 
the daring, and all similar classes in this motley sect, 
with their general, and the host of his spies crawling 
like the frogs, and flying like the locusts of Egypt, all 
over the land, were fully initiated into the secret of 
these '' Instructions : '' and they acted on them every 
day. Hence the horrid marks of their footsteps of 
pollution and blood ! ! ! 

In fact, these " Secret Instructions " were not 
discovered fully to the Christian public until some 
fifty years after the dissolution and expulsion of the 
Society. But all ranks of men. Papal and Protest- 
ant, who had studied the Jesuit movements, intrigues 
and conspiracies, were intimately acquainted with 
their practices. Hence, when the book of " Secret 
Instructions" was discovered, and pu.blished, every 
body at once saw the evidence of its authenticity. 
They had been long familiar with their conspiracies, 
and practices. Here was the exact platform, and 
model of all their actings. They Avho had felt and 
suffered under their atrocious morals, and conspira- 
cies against the cause of God, and the rights of man, 
could not possibly entertain a doubt of the authen- 
ticity of these Rules. They exactly corresponded, 



HISTOKICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 19 

as does the model on paper, formed by the architect's 
hand, correspond with the finished liouse ! It was in 
vain to deny these " Rules and Instructions," 
when all the cunning craft and deed, and atrocities, 
prescribed by these Rules were blazoned in the mem- 
ories of princes, nobles, ministers and people. Be- 
fore they could succeed therefore, in denying the 
" Secret Instructions," it behoved them to raze, 
from national monuments, and national records, and 
all the details of history, the deeds of atrocity perpe- 
trated by the Jesuit order in the old and new world ! 

The Jesuits had been repeatedly charged with act- 
ing on Secret Rules which no eye was allowed to 
see, nor ear to hear. The University of Paris, so far 
back as 1624, charged it on them "that they were 
governed by ' Secret Laws ' " neither allowed by 
kings, nor sanctioned by parliaments. And in the 
History of the Jesuits, vol. i. p. 326, &c. we find in a 
letter from the Roman Catholic bishop of Angelopo- 
lis, the following : — " The superiors of the Jesuits do 
not govern them by the Rules of the Church, but by 
certain ' Secret Instructions and Rules,' which 
are known only to those superiors." See the edition 
of the Letter, published at Cologne in 1666. 

In the gradations of the order there were some, as 
we have already noticed, who were not let into the 
knowledge of their hidden rules. But there were 
others who, though admitted into these hidden rules, 
were not initiated into the most secret regulations. 
During the civil prosecutions in France, brought 
against the Jesuits by the French merchants to re- 



20 HISTOKICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 

cover from the Society the monies lost to them by 
the Jesuits' mercantile missionaries in Martinico, the 
fathers at the head of the Society were constrained 
to bring their books into court. This Avas a most 
unfortunate matter for them. Their ''Constitu- 
tions " were now made public. The nation became 
indignant at the wdiole sect. The parliament issued 
their decree ; dissolved them, and banished them. 

But this was not the worst. The contents of this 
little volume, of which we present a new edition to 
our readers, called "Secreta Monita, — The Se- 
cret Instructions of the Jesuits," was not dis- 
covered until about fifty years after this dissolution 
of tlie sect in France. These were said to be drawn 
up by Laignez, and Aquaviva, the two immediate 
successors of Loyola, the founder. 

When these were first published, the Jesuits were 
at first overwhelmed with fear. But they immedi- 
ately affected to be much offended that such rules 
should be ascribed to them. They publicly denied 
them. This of course was expected. Every criminal 
pleads "not guilty." But their autlienticity is not 
for a moment doubted among all scholars, both Pa- 
pal and Protestant. 

There is a work in the British Museum entitled 
^^ Foj^mulce Provisionum diversarum a Gr, Passarello^ 
summo studio in uniim collectce^'' S^c. and printed at 
Venice in 1596. At the end of this book " The Se- 
cret Instructions " are found in Manuscript; en- 
tered there no doubt by some leading and fully initi- 
ated Jesuit for his own use. And at the close, there 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 21 

is an earnest " caution, and an injunction." The 
caution is that these " Instructions " be communi- 
cated with the utmost care only to a very iew and 
those the well tried. And the injunction is charac- 
teristic. ''Let them be denied to be the Rules of 
the Society of Jesus, if ever they shall be imputed to 
us." 

The first copy of "The Secret Instructions" 
was discovered in the Jesuits' College at Paderborn, 
Westphalia ; and a second copy in the city of Prague, 
In the preface to these is found the same injunction 
as that above : — " If these Rules fall into the hands 
of strangers, they must be positively denied to be the 
Rules of the Society."* 

The discovery of the copy at Paderborn was in 
this wise, as appears from the preface to the English 
copy, published in 1658. When Christian, the Duke 
of Brunswick, took Paderborn, he seized upon the 
Jesuit College there, and gave their library, together 
with all their collections of manuscripts to the Ca- 
puchins. In examining these, they discovered " The 
Secret Instructions" among the arcliives of the 
Rector. And they being, as were also the other 
monkish orders, no friends to the Jesuits, brought 
them before the public. 

Mr. McGavin, in the Glasgow Protestant,! has 

given us this information of another copy. "John 

Schipper, a bookseller of Amsterdam, bought a copy 

of ' The Secret Instructions ' at Antwerp, among 

other books ; and afterwards reprinted it. The Jes- 

* See London Christian Observer, vol. 14, p. 169, 
t Yol. ii. p. 227. Hartford edition. 



22 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS. 

uits being informed that he had bought the book, de- 
manded it back from him. But he had sent it to 
Holland. One of the Society, who lived in Amster- 
dam, hearing it said by a Catholic bookseller named 
Van Eyk, that S chipper was printing a book which 
concerned the Jesuits, replied that if it was only The 
Rules of the Society he would be under no concern. 
Being told it was The Secret Instructions of 
THE Society, the good father shrugged up his sholu- 
ders, and knitting his brow, said that ' he saw no rem- 
edy but denying that this piece came from the Society.' 
The reverend fathers, however, thought it more ad- 
visable to purchase the whole edition; which they 
soon afterwards did, — some few copies excepted. From 
one of these was it afterwards re-printed, with the 
account prefixed : which is said to be taken from two 
Roman Catholic men of credit." 

In 1669 the venerable and learned Dr. Compton, 
Bishop of London, published an English translation 
of The Secret Instructions. His arguments on 
their authenticity, and his character as a scholar and 
divine, are a sufficient guarantee that he would never 
have given his name and influence to sustain a work 
of dubious authority; or calculated to mislead the 
public. 

We have only to add that the last American edi- 
tion, published at Princeton ; and this one which we 
publish, are taken from that translation which was 
published in London in 1723, and dedicated to Sir 
Robert Walpole, Avho was afterwards Lord Orford; 
and who had the high honor of being prime minister 
of George I. and of George 11. W. C. B. 



THE JESUIT'S OATH. 



Question : — Can an American Citizen subscribe 
TO THIS Oath? 



1, A. B., now in the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed 
Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed St. 
John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles 8t. Peter and St. Paul and the 
saints and Sacred Host of Heaven, and to you my ghostly father, I 
do declare from my heart, without mental reservation, that the Pope 
is Christ's Vicar General and is the true and only Head of the uni- 
versal church throughout the earth, and that by virtue of the Keys 
of binding and loosing given to His Holiness by Jesus Christ he 
hath power to depose Heretical Kings, Princes, States, Common- 
wealths and Governments, all being illegal without his sacred 
Confiriuation. ami that they may safely he destroyed. Therefore, 
to the utmost of my power, I will defend this doctrine and His 
Holiness' s rights and customs against all Usurpers of the Heretical 
or Protestant Authority whatsoever, especially against the now 
pretended Authority and Church in England and all Adherents, in 
regard that they be usurped and heretical, opposing the Sacred 
Mother Church of Rome. 

I do Renounce and disown any Allegiance as due to any heretical 
King, Prince or State, named Protestant, or obedience to any of 
their inferior Magistrates or Officers. 

I do further declare the doctrine of the Church of England, of 
the Calvin ists, Huguenots and other Protestants, to be damnable, 
and those to be damned who will not forsake the same. I do 
further declare that I will help, assist and advise all or any of His 
Holiness' s agents, in any place wherever I shall be, and to do my 
utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestant doctrine, and to de- 
stroy all their pretended power, regal or otherwise. I do further 
promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with to 
assume any religion heretical for the propagation of the Mother 
Church's interest to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels 
as they entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by 
word, writing or circumstance whatsoever, but to execute all 
which shall be proposed, given in charge, or discovered imto me, 
by you my ghostly father, or by any one of this convent. 

All which I, A. B., do swear by the Blessed Trinity, and Blessed 
Sacrament which I am about to receive, to perform, on my part to 
keep inviolably; and do call on all the Heavenly and Glorious Host 
of Heaven to witness my real intentions to keep this my oath. In 
testimony whereof, I take this most Holy and Blessed Sacrament 
of the Eucharist, and witness the same further with my hand and 
seal, in the face of this holy convent. 



PR^FATIO. 



Privata haec monita custodiant diligenter et penes 
se servent superiores, paucisque ex professis ea tan- 
tum communicent, et aliqua de iis instruant non pro- 
fesses, quando nimirum et quanto cum fructu socie- 
tati Usui sit ; illaque non nisi sub sigillo silentii ne 
quidem ut scripta ab altero, sed ex peculiari experi- 
entia desumpta: et quia multi ex professis horum 
secretorum sunt conscii, ideo vel ab initio cavit so- 
cietas, ne uUus conscius liorum posset ad alias relig- 
iones se conferre, excepta carthusianorum, ob perpe- 
tuam vitse abstractionem, et indelebile silentium ; 
quod etiam Sacra Sedes confirmavit. 



Cavendum omnio ne in manus externorum haec 
monita deveniant, quia sinistre interpretarentur des- 
tinationi nostrae invidentes ; quod si hoc accidat 
(quod absit !), negentur haec esse sensa societatis, 
idque per illos confirmando e nostris, de quibus certo 



PREFACE, 



These Private Instructions must be carefully re- 
tained and kept by the superiors in their own hands, 
and by them be communicated only to a few of the 
professors ; and when it shall be judged for the bene- 
fit of the Society to divulge some of them to such as 
are non-professors ; but even these must be done un- 
der the strictest ties of secrecy, and not as rules com- 
mitted to Avriting by others, but as deduced from the 
experience of him that dictates. And since many of 
the professors must necessarily from hence be ac- 
quainted with these private advices, the Society has, 
therefore, from their first establishment, taken care 
that no one who is in the secret can betake himself 
to any other order but that of the Carthusians; 
and this, from the strict retirement in which they 
live, and the inviolable silence they are compelled to ; 
which the holy see has been pleased to confirm. 

The greatest care imaginable must be also taken 
that these instructions do not fall into the hands of 
strangers, for fear, out of envy to our order, they 
should give them a sinister interpretation ; but if 
this, (which God forbid!) should happen, let it be 
positively denied that these are the principles of the 



26 PR^FATIO. 

constat, quod ea ignorent ; opponantur his monitaquie 
nostra generalia, et ordinationes seu regulse impressse 
vel scriptae. - ' 



Superiores etiam semper soUicite et caute inquir- 
ant, an alictii externo, a nostris haec monita prodita 
sint ; nullus etiam haec pro se, aut pro alio transcribet 
aut transcribi permittet, nisi conscio Generali vel 
Provinciali ; et si de asservandis tantis secretis socie- 
tatis de aliquo dubitetur, in contrarium illi imputetur, 
et dimittatur. 



PREFACE. 27 

Society, and such denial be confirmed by those of our 
members who we are sure know nothing of them ; by 
this means, and by confronting these with our Pub- 
lic Instructions, printed or written, our credibility 
will be established beyond opposition., 

Let the superiors also carefully and warily inquire 
whether discovery has been niade of these Instruc- 
tions by any of our members to strangers ; and let 
none transcribe, or suffer them to be transcribed ei- 
ther for himself or others, without the consent of the 
general or provincial. And if any one be suspected 
of incapacity to keep such important secrets, acquaint 
him not of your suspicion, but dismiss him. 



SECRETA MONITA 

SOCIETATIS JeSU. 



CAPUT I. 

Qualem societas prcestare sese debeat^ cum ineipit de 
novo alicujus loci fundationem. 

1. Ut se gratam reddat incolis loci, multum con- 
ducet explicatio finis societatis prsescripti in regulis, 
ubi dicitnr societatem snmmo conatu in salutem 
proximi incumbere, sequetatque in suam. Quare hu- 
milia obsequia obeunda, in Xenodochiis, pauperes et 
afflicti, et incarcerati invisendi, confessiones prompte 
et generatim excipiendse, ut in solitS, in omnes cliari- 
tatese, et rei novitate eminentiores incolse nostros 
admirentur et ament. 



2. Meminerint omnes facultatem ad exercenda so- 
cietatis ministeria modeste ac religiose petendam ; et 



THE 

SECRET INSTRUCTIONS 

OF 

The Jesuits. 



CHAPTER I. 

How the Society must behave themselves when they 
begin any new foundation. 

I. It will be of great importance for the rendering 
our members agreeable to the inhabitants of the place 
where they design their settlement, to set forth the 
end of the Society in the manner prescribed by our 
statutes, which lay down, that the society ought as 
diligently to seek occasions of doing good to their 
neighbors as to themselves ; wherefore, let them with 
humility discharge the meanest offices in the hospi- 
tals ; frequently visit the sick, the poor, and the pris- 
oners, and readily and indifferently take the confes- 
sions of all, that the novelty of such uncommon and 
and diffusive charity may excite in the principal in- 
habitants an admiration of our conduct, and forcibly 
draw them into an affection for us. 

II. Let it be remembered by all, that the privilege 
to exercise the ministry of this Society must be re- 
quested in a modest and religious manner, and that 



30 SEGKETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

omnes turn ecclesiasticos prsesertim turn sseculares 
quorum auctoritate indigemus, benevolos sibi facere 
studeant. 

3. Ad loca distantia etiam eundum, ubi elemo 

synse, quantumvis parvse recipiendee, exposita neces- 
sitate nostroruin ; eadem deinde dandae aliis pauperi- 
bus, ut sic sedificentur ii, qui nondum societatem no- 
verunt, et sint in nos tanto liberiores. 

4. Omnes eundem videantur spirare spiritum, ideo- 
que eumdem modum exteriorem addiscant, ut uni- 
formitas in tanta diversitate personarum unumquem- 
que sedificet, qui secus fecerint, tanquam nocui, di- 
mittantur. 



5. Caveant nostri emere fundos in initio; sed si 
quos emerint nobis bene sitos, fiat ho mutato nomine 
aliquorum amicorum fidelium et secretorum ; et ut 
melius luceat paupertas nostra, bona quae sunt vicina 
locis, in quibus collegia habeamus, per provincialem 
assignentur coUegiis remotis, quo fiet ut nunquam 
principes vel magistratus habeant certam notitiam 
redituum societatis. 



6. Non divertant nostri cum intentione residendi 
per modum coUegii nisi ad urbes opulentas; finis 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 31 

they must use their best endeavors to gain chiefly the 
favor of such ecclesiastics and secular persons of 
whose authority they may stand in need. 

III. Let them also remember to visit distant places, 
where, having demonstrated the necessities of the 
Society, they shall readily receive the most inconsid- 
erable alms, which afterwards being bestowed on 
other objects, may edify those which are as yet unac- 
quainted with our Society, and stir them up to a 
greater liberality to us. 

IV. Let all seem as though they breathed the same 
spirit, and consequently learn the same exterior be- 
havior, that by such an uniformity in so great a 
diversity of men all may be edified. But if any ob- 
stinately persist in a contrary deportment, let them 
be immediately dismissed, as dangerous persons and 
hurtful to the Society. 

V. At their first settlement, let our members be 
cautious of purchasing lands ; but if they happen to 
buy such as are well situated, let this be done in the 
name of some faithful and trusty friend. And that 
our poverty may have the more colorable gloss of 
reality, let the purchases, adjacent to the places 
wherein our colleges are founded, be assigned by the 
provincial to colleges at a distance ; hj which means 
it will be impossible that princes and magistrates can 
ever attain to a certain knowledge what the revenues 
of the Society amount to. 

VI. Let no places be pitched upon by any of our 
members for founding a college but opulent cities ; 



32 SECEETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

enim societatis est imitare Christum salvatorem nos- 
trum, qui Hierosolymis maxime morabatur, alia 
autem loca minus prsecipua tantum pertransibat. 

7. Summum pretium a viduis semper extorquen- 
dum, inculcata illis summa nostra necessitate. 

8. In unaquaque provincia, nemo nisi provincialis 
noverit prsecise valorem redituum. Sacrum autem 
esto quantum corbona romana contineat. 

9. Concionentur nostri, et ubique in coUoquiis pro- 
palent, se adpuerorum instructionem et populi sub- 
sidium venisse, ac omnia gratis, et sine personarum 
acceptione prsestare, nee esse in gravamen communi- 
tatis, ut cseateri ordines religiosi. 



CAPUT 11. 

Quomodo principum^ magnatum et primariorum PP, 
societatis familiaritatem acquirent et conservabunt. 

1. Conatus omnis ad hoc in primis adhibendus, ut 
principum et primariorum ubique locorum aures et 



SECKET IKSTIIUCTIOKS OF THE JESUITS. 33 

the end of the Society being the imitation of our 
blessed Saviour, who ihade his principal residence in 
the metropolis of Judea^ and only transiently visited 
the less remarkable places. 

VII. Let the greatest sums be always extorted 
from widows, by frequent remonstrances of our ex- 
treme necessities. 

VIII. In every province, let none but the principal 
be fully apprised of the real value of our revenues ; 
and let what is contained in the treasury of Rome be 
always kept an inviolable secret. 

IX. Let it be publicly demonstrated, and every- 
where declared by our members in their private con- 
versation, that the only end of their coming there 
was for the instruction of youth, and the good and 
welfare of the inhabitants ; that they do all this with- 
out the least view of reward, or respect of persons, 
and that they are not an incumbrance upon the peo- 
ple, as other religious societies are. 



CHAPTER IL 

In ivhat manner the Society must deport^ that they may 
work themselves into^ and after that preserve a fa- 
miliarity with princes^ noblemen^ and persons of the 
greatest distinction, 

I. Princes, and persons of distinction every where, 
must by all means be so managed that we may have 



34 SECKETA mo:n^ita SOCIETATIS JEStr. 

aiiimos obtineamus ne sit que in nos audeat insur- 
gere, quinimo omnes cogantur a nobis dependere. 



2. Cum autem experientia doceat principes et mag- 
nates tum prsesertim affici personis ecclesiasticis, 
quando odiosa eorum facta dissimulant, sed in meli- 
orem potius partem ea interpretantur, ut videre est 
in matrimoniis contrahendis cum affinibus, aut con- 
sanguineis aut similibus, animandi sunt qui haec aut 
similia affectant, spe facta per nostros istiusmodi dis- 
pensationes facile a summo Pontifice impertrandi, 
quod faciet si explicentur rationes, proferantur exem- 
pla, et recitentur sententise favorabiles titulo commu- 
nis boni, et majoris gloriae Dei, quae est scopus socie- 
tatis. 



3. Idem faciendum si princeps - aggreditur aliquid 
faciendum non seque magnatibus omnibus gratum. 
Permovendus, nempe, animus ei, et instigandus, 
sese accomodent, neque contradicant ; in genere ta- 
cseterorum vero animi commovendi ad hoc ut principi 
men tantum, nee unquam ad particularia descend- 
endo, ne societati imputetur, si male negotium suc- 
cesserit ; et si quidem hoc aliquando factum reprobe- 



SECKET INSTKUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 35 

their ear, and that will easily secure their hearts : by 
which way of proceeding, all persons will become our 
creatures, and no one will dare to give the Society the 
least disquiet or opposition. 

II. That ecclesiastical persons gain a great footing 
in the favor of princes and noblemen, by Avinking at 
their vices, and putting a favorable construction on 
whatever they do amiss, experience convinces ; and 
this we may observe in their contracting of marriages 
with their near relations and kindred, of the like. It 
must be our business to encourage such, whose incli- 
nation lies this way, by leading them up in hopes, 
that through our assistance they may easily obtain a 
dispensation from the Pope; and no doubt he will 
readily grant it, if proper reason be urged, parallel 
cases produced, and opinions quoted which counte- 
nance such actions, when the common good of man- 
kind, and the greater advancement of God's glory, 
which are the only end and design of the society, are 
pretended to be the sole motives to them. 

III. The same must be observed when the prince 
happens to engage in any enterprise which is not 
equally approved by all his nobility ; for in such 
cases he must be edged on and excited ; whilst they, 
on the other hand, must be dissuaded from opposing 
him, and advised to acquiesce in all his proposals. 
But this must be done only in generals^ always ^YOidr 
mg particulars ; lest, upon the ill success of the affair 
the miscarriage be thrown upon the Society. And 
should ever the action be called in question, care 



36 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

tur, recitentur monita contraria hsec plane prohiben- 
tia, et adliibeatur auctoritas aliquorum patrum, de 
quibus constat qnocl hsec ipsa monita illos lateant, 
qui etiam cum juramento asserere poterunt societa- 
tum, quoad lisec quae illi improperantur, calumniam 
pati. 

4. Juvabit etiam non parum ad occupandos princi- 
pum animos, si, nostri dextre et per tertias personsa 
insinuent se ad legationes honorificas et favorabiles 
ad alios principes aut reges pro illis obeundas, prse- 
sertim apud pontificem et supremos monarchas ; hac 
enim occasione sese et societatem commendare pote- 
runt, quare non nisi zelosi valde et versati in instit- 
uto nostro eo erunt destinandi. 



5. Alumni principum et domestici prsecipue, quibus 
familiariter utuntur, per munuscula prsecipue et va- 
ria pietatis officia vicendi sunt, ut tandem nostros 
fideliter de humoribus et inclinationibus principum 
ac magnatum instruant ; et sic facile illis societas sese 
accomodabiti 

6. Experientia etiam docuit in domo austria, aliis- 
que regnis Gallise, Poloniae, etc., cseterisque ducati- 
bus, quantum societas sese juverit tractandis matri- 
moniis inter principes. Quare prude nter proponan- 
tur exquisiti conjuges, qui cum parentibus vel amicis 
nostrorum sunt amici vel familiares. 



SECRET INSTKUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 37 

must be taken to have instructions always ready, 
plainly forbidding it ; and these also must be backed 
with the authority of some senior members, v*^ho be- 
ing wdioUy ignorant of the matter, must attest, upon 
oath, that such groundless" insinuations are a mali- 
cious and base imputation on the Society. 

IV. It will also very much further us in gaining 
the favor of princes, if our members artfully Avorm 
themselves, by the interest of others, into honorable 
embassies to foreign courts in their behalf; but es- 
pecially to the Pope and great monarchs ; for by such 
opportunities they will be in a capacity both to rec- 
ommend themselves and their society. To this end 
therefore let none but thorough zealots for our inter- 
est, and persons well versed in the schemes and in- 
stitutions of the Societv, be ever pitched upon for 
such purposes. 

V. Above all, due care must be taken to curry 
favor with the minions and domestics of princes and 
noblemen ; whom by small presents, and many offices 
of piety, we may so far byass, (bias,) as by means of 
them to get a faithful intelligence of the bent of 
their master's humors and inclinations ; thus will the 
Society be better qualified to chime in with their 
tempers. 

VI. How much the Society has benefited from 
their engagements in marriage treaties, the house of 
Austria and Bourbon; Poland and other kingdoms, 
are experimental evidences. Wherefore let such 
matches be with prudence picked out, whose parents 
are our friends, and firmly attached to our interests. 



38 SECEETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

7. FeminsB principes per domesticas, potissimum 
qu8B a cubiculis sunt, facillime vincenter ; quare illse 
omnibus modis foveantur, sic enim ad omnia, etiam 
secretissima, in familia aditus patebit. 

8. In conscientiis magnatum regendis sequentur 
nostri confessorii, sententiam illorum auctorum qui 
liberiorem conscientiam faciunt contra opinionem ali- 
orum religiosorum, ut, relictis illis, a nostra direct- 
ione et consiliis toti velint dependero. 

9. Tam principes quam prselati aliique omnes qui 
societati favorem extraordinarium prsestare possunt, 
participes faciendi sunt omnium meritorum societatis, 
exposito illis momento liujus summi privilegii. 

10. Insinuandse etiam caute et prudenter facultates 
amplissimae societatis absolvendi etiam a casibus re- 
servatis respectu aliorum pastorum aut religiosorum, 
item clispensandi in jejuniis, debito reddendo, aut pe- 
tendo, matrimonii impedimentis, aliisque notis, in 
quo fiet ut plurimi ad nos recurrant et obstringantur. 



11. Invitandi at condones, sodalitates, orationes, 
actiones, declamationes, etc., in quibus carminibus, 



SECRET iXSTKUCTIOKS OF THE JESUITS. 39 

VII. Princesses and ladies of quality are easily to 
be gained by the influence of the woman of their 
bed-chamber ; for which reason we must by all means 
pay particular address to these, for thereby there will 
be no secrets in the family but what we shall have 
fully disclosed to us» • - 

VIIL In directing the consciences of great men, it 
must be observed that our confessors are to follow 
the opinion of those who allow the greater latitude, 
in opposition to that of other religious orders ; that, 
their penitents being allured with the prospect of 
such freedom, may readily relinquish them, and 
wholly depend upon our direction and counsel. 

IX. Princes, prelates, and all others who are cap- 
able of being signally serviceable to the order, must 
be favored so far as to be made partakers of all the 
merits of the Society, after a proper information of 
the high importance of so great a privilege. 

X. Let these notions be cautiously and with cun- 
ning instilled into the people, that this Society is en- 
trusted with a far greater power of absolving, even 
in the nicest cases; of dispensing with fasts; with 
paying and demanding of debts; with impediments 
of matrimony, and other common matters, than any 
other religious order: which insinuations will be of 
such consequence, that many of necessity must have 
recourse to us, and thereby lay themselves under 
the strictest obligations. 

VI. It will be very proper to give invitations to 
such to attend our sermons and fellowships, to hear 



40 SECliETA MOKITA SOCIETATIS JESUo 

inscriptis thesibus honorandi, turn, si expeclit, in tri- 
clinio mensa, excipiendi, variisque et dictis salutandi. 



12. Inimicitise et dessentiones inter magnates ad 
nos distrahendse. erunt ut componantur, sic enini in 
notitiam familiarium et secretorum paulatim poteri- 
mus devenire, et alterutram partem nobis devincere. 

13. Quod si monarchse vel principi serviat aliquis 
societati parum addictus, invigilandum ut sive per 
nostros, sive potius per alios ille in amicitiam ac fa- 
miliaritatem societatis inducatur, promissis favoribus 
ac promotionibus per principem aut monarcham 
suum procurandis. 

14. Caveant omnes quacumque ratione dimissos 
a societate, et prsesertim illos qui sua sponte ab ea 
discedere voluerunt, apud quemquam commendare, 
aut promovere ; quia quantumcunque illi dissimu- 
lent, semper tamen irreconciliabile odium adversus 
societatem gerunt. 

15. Denique ita omnes soUiciti sint, principes, 
magnates, et magistratus cujusque loci conciliare, ut 
etiam contra consanguineos, et affines, et amicos 
cuos, pro illis, quando occasio sese obtulerit, strenue 
fideliterque agant. 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 41 

our orations and declamations, as also to compliment 
them with verses and theses ; to address them in a 
genteel and comj)laisant manner, and at proper op- 
portunities to give them handsome entertainments. 

XII. Let proper methods be used to get knowl- 
edge of the animosities that arise among great men, 
that we may have a finger in reconciling their differ- 
ences ; for by this means we shall gradually become 
acquainted with their friends and secret affairs, and 
of necessity engage one of the parties in our interests. 

XIII. But should discovery happen to be made, that 
any person serves either king or prince, who is not 
Avell-affected towards our Society, no stone must be 
left unturned by our members, or which is more 
proper, some other, to induce him by promises, favors 
and preferments, which must be procured for him 
under his king or prince, to entertain a friendship for 
and familiarity with us. 

XIV. Let all be very cautious of recommending 
or preferring such as have been any way dismissed 
from the Society, but especially those who of their 
own accord have departed from it ; for let them dis- 
guise it ever so cunningly, nevertheless they always 
retain an implacable hatred against our order. 

XV. Finally, — Let all with such artfulness gain 
the ascendant over princes, noblemen, and the magis- 
trates of every place, that they may be ready at our 
beck, even to sacrifice their nearest, relations and 
most intimate friends, when we say it is for our in- 
terest and advantage. 



42 SECRETA MOKITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

CAPUT III. 

Quomodo agendum societati cum illis qui magnce sunt 
auctoritatis in republican et quamvis divites non sint^ 
aliis tamen modis juvare possunt. 

1. Prseter supradicta, quae fere omnia proportional- 
iter illis applicari possunt, curanda est gratia illorum 
ad versus adversarios nostros. 

2. Utendum etiam auctoritate, prudentia, et con- 
silio eorum, ad contemptionem bonorum et acquisiti- 
onem variorum munerum a societate obeundorum ; 
adhibito etiam tacite et plene secreto illorum nom- 
ine, in augmentatione bonorum temporalium, si satis 
illis putetur confidendum. 

3. Adliibendi etiam ut mitigent et compescant 
homines viliores, et plebem societati nostrae contra- 
riam. 

4. Ab episcopis, pra^latis et aliis superioribus ec- 
clesiasticis, pro diversitate rationum et propensione in 
nos ea exigenda quae fuerint opportuna. 



6. In quibusdam partibus satis erit, si procure tur 



SECBET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESCriTS. 43 

CHAPTER III. 

How the Society must behave themselves towards those 
who are at the helm of affairs^ and others who 
although they he not rich^ are notivithstanding in 
a capacity of being otherwise serviceable, 

I. All that has been before mentioned, may, in a 
great measure, be applied to these ; and we must also 
be industrious to procure their favor against every 
one that opposes us. 

II. Their authority and wisdom must be courted, 
for obtaining several offices to be discharged by us ; 
we must also make a handle of their advice with 
respect to the contempt of riches ; though at the 
same time, if their secrecy and faith may be depended 
on, we may privately make use of their names in 
amassing temporal goods for the benefit of the 
Society. 

III. They must be also employed in calming the 
minds of the meaner sort of people, and in Avheed- 
ling the aversions of the populace into an affection 
for our Society. 

IV. As to bishops, prelates, and other superior 
ecclesiastics, they must be importuned for such things 
only as shall appear necessary ; and even for these, 
with a proper regard to the diversity of our occa- 
sions, and the tendency of their inclinations to serve 
us. 

V. In some places it will be sufficient if we can 



44 SECRETA MOIsriTA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

ut praelati et parochi efiiciant quod subditi illornm 
societatem revereantur, et ipsi ministeria nostra non 
impediant, in aliis locis ubi plus possunt, ut in Ger- 
mania, Polonia, etc. sacrosancte colendi, ut auctori- 
tate illorum et principum, monasteria, parochise, proe- 
positurae, patronatus, altarium fundationes, loca pia 
f undata ad nos divelli possint ; f acillime enim ea asse- 
qui poterimus in locis ubi catholici hsereticis et schis- 
maticis permixti sunt. Demonstrandum ejusmodi 
prselatis, immensum fructum et meritum ex talibus 
mutationibus oriundum, a sacerdotibus, ssecularibus, 
et monachis non expectandum ; quod si f ecerint, lau- 
dandus palam illorum zelus, etiam scripto, inculcan- 
daque memoria facti perpetua. 



6. Conandum eo fine ut prselati tales nostris tum a 
confessionibus, tum a consiliis utantur et si quidem 
in spe sint, aut praetentione, ad alteriores gradus in 
curia romana, juvandi omni contentione, ac conatu 
amicorum, ubicunque ad hoc conferre valentium. 

7. Curent etiam nostri apud episcopos et principes, 
ut dum fundant collegia acecclesias parochiales, soci- 
etas habeat potestatem statuendi vicarium habentme 



SECRET INSTEUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 45 

prevail with the prelates and curates, to cause those 
under them only to bear a reverence to our order, 
and that they themselves will be no hindrance to us 
in the discharge of our ministry. In others, where 
the clergy are more predominant, as in Grermany^ 
Poland^ &c., they must be addressed with the pro- 
foundest respect, that by their and the prince's au- 
thority, monasteries, parishes, priories, patronages, 
foundations of masses, and religious places, may be 
drawn into our clutches ; and this is no hard matter 
to be obtained in those places where catholics are 
intermixed with heretics and schismatics. And for 
the better effecting of this, it will be of great impor- 
tance to remonstrate to these prelates the prodigious 
advantage and merit there will be in changes of this 
sort, which can hardly be expected from priests, secu- 
lars, and monks. But should they be prevailed upon, 
their zeal must then be rewarded with public com- 
mendations, and the memory of the action transmitted 
in writing to the latest posterity. 

VI. In prosecution of the same end, we must 
engage such prelates to make use of us both for con- 
fessors and counsellors ; and if they at any time aim 
at higher preferment from the see of Rome^ their 
pretensions must be backed with such strong inter- 
est of pur friends in every place, as we shall be almost 
sure not to meet with a disappointment. 

VII. Due care must be also taken by such of our 
members who have intercourse with bishops and 
princes, that the society, when these found either 



46 SECRET A MONITA SOCIETATIS JESIT. 

curam animarum, ipse vero superior loci pro tempore 
existens si parochus, et sic totum regi men ecclesise 
illius erit nostrum, et parochiani omnes societati 
plene erunt subjecti, ut quidvis ab illis impetretur. 



8. Ubi academici sunt nobis repugnantes, vel Cath- 
olici, aut hseretici cives fundationes impedientes, ibi 
per praelatos conandum et prim arise cathedrae con- 
cionatorise occupentur ; sic enim continget spcietatem 
aliquando saltem necesitates ac rationes per occasi- 
onem saltem exposituram. 

9. Maxime vero prselati ecclesise, devinciendi 
erunt, quando agetur de beatificatione aut canoniza- 
tione nostrorum, et tunc omnibus modis a magnati- 
bus et principibus litterse procurandae erunt, in qui- 
bus apud sedem apostolicam negotium promoveatur. 

10. Si contingat praelatos aut magnates legationem 
obire, cevendum sedulo ac praeveniendum ne aliis re- 
ligiosis qui nobiscum certant, utantur; ne affectum 
in illos transferant, et in provincias ac civitates in 
quibus nos moramur, inducant. Quod si hujusmodi 
legati transiverint illas provincias vel civitates, ubi 
societas collegia habet, excipiantur magno honore et 
affectu et pro modestia religiosa tractentur. 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 47 

colleges, or parochial churches, may alwa3^s have the 
power of presenting vicars for the cure of souls ; 
and that the superintendent of the place for the time 
being be appointed curate, to the end we may grasp 
the whole government of the church ; and its parish- 
ioners by that means become such vassals to us, that 
we can ask nothing of them that they will dare to 
deny us. 

VIII. Wherever tne governors of academies ham- 
per our design, or the catholics or heretics oppose us 
in our foundations, we must endeavor by the prelates 
to secure the principal pulpits ; for by this means the 
society at least may some time or other have an op- 
portunity of remonstrating their wants, and laying 
open their necessities. 

IX. The prelates of the church, above all others, 
must be mightily caressed when the affair of canon- 
ization of any of our members is upon the foot ; and 
at such a time, letters by all means niust be procured 
from princes and noblemen, by whose interest 
the matter may be promoted at the court of Rome. 

X. If ever it happen that prelates or noblemen 
are employed in embassies, all caution must be taken 
to prevent them from using any religious order that 
oppose ours, lest their disaffection to us should be 
infused into their masters, and they propagate it 
among the provinces and cities where we reside. 
And if ever ambassadors of this kind pass through 
provinces or cities where we have colleges, let them 
be received with all due marks of honor and esteem, 
and as handsomely entertained as religious decency 
can possiblj^ admit of. 



48 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESTJ, 

CAPUT IV. 

Quce eommendata esse deheant concionatoribus et con- 
fessariis magnatum, 

1. Nostri, principes virosqiie illustres ita dirigant, 
lit solum ad majorem Dei gloriam tendere videantur 
et ad talem austeritatem conscientise, quam ipsimet 
principes concedunt; neque eniin statim sed sensim 
spectare debet directio illorum externam et politicam 
gubernationem. 

2. Ideo ssepe illis inculcandum distributionem ho- 
norum et dignitatum in republiia spectare ad justi- 
tiam, graviterque Deum offendi a principibus, si con- 
tra earn spectant, et ex passione procedunt. Protes- 
tentur ssepe ac serio se nuUo modo velle in reipublicae 
administrationem ingerere, sed invitos dicere, ratione 
officii sui. Turn ubi semel bene lisec apprehenderint, 
explicetur quibus virtutibus prsediti esse debeant qui 
ad dignitates et munia publica ac primaria assumendi 
sunt, nominenturque tandem, et commendentur ab 
illis qui sunt sinceri amici societatis. Hoc tamen 
non fiet immediate per nostros, nisi princeps ad hoc 
coegerit, sed plus gratiae habebit, si interponantur 
amici vel familiares principis. 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 49 



CHAPTER IV. 

The chief things to he recommended to preachers and 
confessors of nohlemen. 

I. Let the members of our Society direct princes 
and great men in such a manner that they may seem 
to have nothing else in view but the promotion of 
God's glory ; and advise them to no other austerity 
of conscience but what they themselves are willing to 
comply with ; for their aim must not, immediately, 
but by degrees and insensibly, be directed towards 
political and secular dominion. 

II. We must therefore often inculcate into them, 
that honors and preferments in the state should always 
be conferred according to the rules of justice ; that 
God is very much offended at princes, when they any 
ways derogate from this principle and are hurried 
away by the impulse of their passions. In the next 
place, our members must with gravity protest, and in 
a solemn manner affirm, that the administration of 
public affairs is what they with reluctance interfere 
in; and that the duty of their office obliges them 
often to speak such truths as they would otherwise 
omit. When this point is once gained, care must be 
taken to lay before them the several virtues persons 
should be furnished with who are to T^e admitted into 
public employs : not forgetting slyly to recommend 
to them such as are sincere friends to our order : but 
this must be done in such a manner as not imme- 



50 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 



3. Quo circa confessarii et concionatores nostri in- 
formentur ab amicis nostris, qui pro quovis munere 
sunt apti, prsesertim tales qui erga societatem liber- 
ales sunt, horum nomina apud se habeant, et suo 
tempore cum dexteritate, sive per se, sive per alios, 
principibus insinuent. 

4. Meminerint summopere confessarii et conciona- 
tores, principes suaviter et blande tractare, nuUo 
modo in concinionibus et privatis coUoquiis perstrin- 
gere, omnes pavores ab illis removere, et in ipsa fide, 
justitia politica potissimum adhortari. 

5. Munuscula parva vix unquam pro privato usu 
acceptant, sed commendent necessitatem com munem 
provincie aut coUegii domi cubiculo. Simplicitur in- 
structo gaudeant, neque curiose nimis se vestiant, et 
ad abjectiores personas, quse in palatio sunt, juvandas 
ac consolandas prompte se conf erant, ne soils magnat- 
ibus prsesto esse videantur. 



6. Quamprimum post mortem officialium curent ut 
de substituendis amicis societatis mature agant, et 



SECRET INSTUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 51 

diately to come from us (unless the princes enjoin it,) 
for it may be effected with a far better grace by such 
as are their favorites and familiars. 

III. Wherefore let the confessors and preachers 
belonging to our order be informed hj our friends of 
persons proper for every office, and above all, of such 
as are our benefactors ; and whose names let them 
carefully keep by them, that when proper opportuni- 
ties occur, they may be palmed upon the prince 
by the dexterity of our members or their agents. 

IV. Let the confessors and preachers always re- 
member, with complaisance and a winning address, 
to sooth princes, and never give them the least 
offence in their sermons or private conversations ; to 
dispossess their minds of all imaginary doubts and 
fears, and exhort them principally to faith, hope and 
political justice. 

V. Let them seldom or never accept of small 
presents for their own private use, but rather recom- 
mend the common necessities of the province or 
college. At home, let chambers plainly furnished 
content them; and let them not appear in showy 
dresses, but be ready at every turn to administer 
their ghostly advice to the meanest person about 
the palace, lest they give others occasion to believe, 
they are willing to be helpful to none but the 
great. 

VI. Immediately upon the death of any person of 
post, let them take timely care to get some friend of 
our Society preferred in his room ; but this must be 



52 SECRETA mo:n^ita societatis jesu. 

suspicione se eximant extorti regiminis ; quare etiam, 
uti supradictum est, immediate se non impendent, 
sed amicos fideles, ac potentes, qui sustinere invidiam 
possunt, si quaeoriatur. 



CAPUT V. 

Quomodo agendum cum religiosis^ qui iisdem in ec- 
clesid^ quibus nos^ functionibus vacant. 

1. Genus istud hominum ferendum animose, inte- 
rim principibus et illis qui aliqua auctoritate valent, 
et aliquo modo nobis addicti sunt, explicandum et 
indicandum opportune nostram societatem omnium 
ordinum continere perfectionem, prseter cantum et 
exteriorem in victu et vestitu asperitatem; et si quae 
religiones in aliquo excellant, societatem eminentiori 
modo lucere in ecclesi& Dei. 



2. Inquirantur et notentur defectus aliorum religi- 
osorum, quibus prudenter et plerumque per modum 
deplorationis apud fideles amicos paulatim defectis ac 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 63 

cloaked with such cunning and management as to 
avoid giving the least suspicion of our intending to 
usurp the prince's authority ; for this reason (as has 
been already said) we ourselves must not appear in it, 
but make a handle of the artifice of some faithful 
friends for effecting our designs, whose power may 
screen them from the envy which might otherwise 
fall heavier upon the Society. 



CHAPTER V. 

What hind of condiiet must be observed towards such 
religious persons as are employed in the same eccle- 
siastical functions with us. 

I. We must not be discouraged or beat down by 
this sort of men, but take proper opportunities, 
demonstrably to convince princes, and others in au- 
thority, who are in any way attached to our interest, 
that our order contains the perfection of all others, 
excepting only their cant and outward austerity of 
life and dress ; but if another order should claim 
pre-eminence in any particular, that it is ours 
Avhich shines with the greatest lustre in the Church 
of God. 

II. Let the defects of other religious orders be 
diligently canvassed and remarked, and, after full 
discovery, gradually published to our faithful friends, 
but always with prudence and a seeming sorrow; 



54 SECHETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

propalatis, ostendatur, minus feliciter illos satisfacere 
istis fuiictionibus quibus nobiscum concurrunt. 



3. Majori conatn eundum est contra eos qui 
scholas dro juventute docenda instituere volunt istis 
locis, in quibus cum honore et utilitate nostri decent. 
Ostendant principibus et magistratibus tales fore per- 
turbation! et seditioni reipublicae nisi im})ediantur, 
qu86 ab ipsismet pueris, qui diversimode instruentur, 
incipient, denique societatem sufficere juventuti erud- 
iendae. 



4. Quod si religiose literas pontificias obtinuerint 
aut cardinalium commendationem pro se habeant, 
agant nostri contra per principes ac magnates, qui 
Pontificem informent de benemeritis societates, et 
sufficientia ut per illam pacifice juventus instruatur ; 
procurent etiam et exhibeant testimonia a magistrati- 
bus danda de bona illorum conversatione et instituti- 
one. 

5. Interim pro viribus nostri studeant edere speci- 
men singulare virtutis et doctrinse execcendo studi- 
osos in studiis, aliisque plausibilibus ludis scholasti- 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 56 

and let it be pretended, that it is not in their power 
to acquit themselves so happily as we, even in the 
discharge of those functions which are common to 
us both. 

III. But far greater efforts must be made against 
those who attempt setting up schools for the educa- 
tion of youth, in places where any of our members 
do the same already with honor and advantage. 
And in this case, princes and magistrates must be 
told, that such, unless timely prevented, will cer- 
tainly prove nurseries of tumult and sedition ; for 
children, from different methods of instruction, must 
necessarily imbibe different principles ; and lastly, 
we must persuade them, that no society but ours 
is qualified for discharging an office of so great 
importance. 

IV. And should these religious orders procure 
license from the pope, or obtain recommendations 
from cardinals, our members must oppose these by 
the interest of princes and noblemen, who should 
inform his holiness of the merits of our society, and 
its capacity for the peaceful education of youth ; and 
let this be corroborated by testimonies from the mag- 
istrates of the place, concerning the good behaviour 
and faithful instruction of such as are committed to 
our care. 

V. In the meantime, let our members be mindful 
to give to the public some signal instances of their 
virtue and learning, by directing their pupils in the 
presence of the gentry, magistrates, and populace, in 



56 SECKETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

cis, magnatibus ac magistratibus et populo spectanti- 
bus. 



CAPUT VL 

De conciliandis societati viduis opulentis. 

1. Diligantur ad hoc opus patres provectse aetatis, 
complexionis vivacis et conversationis gratae ; ab illis 
visitentur viduae illse, et simul atque affectum ali- 
quem erga societatem ostendunt, vicissim opera et 
merita societatis illis offerantur. Quod si acceptent 
et ecclesias nostras visitare coeperint, prospiciatur eis 
de confessario, a quo bene dirigantur prsesertim in 
ordine ad constantiam in statu viduali, enumerando 
et laudando illius fructus et f elicitatem ; certoque 
spondeant et tanquam obsides promittant SBternum 
meritum hac ratione conquirendum, et efficacissimum 
esse remedium ad purgatorias poenas evitandas. 



2. Procuret idem confessarius ut sacello vel ora- 
torio alicui domi adornando occupentur, in quo medi- 



SECKET I^'STKUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 57 

their several studies, or engaging them in the per- 
formance of some other scholastic exercises proper for 
gaining public applause. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Of proper methods for indueing rich widows to he 
liberal to our Society. 

I. For the managing of this affair, let such mem- 
bers only be chosen as are advanced in age, of a 
lively complexion and agreeable conversation ; let 
these frequently visit such widows, and the minute 
they begin to show any affection towards our order, 
then is the time to lay before them the good works 
and merits of the society. If they seem kindly to 
give ear to this, and begin to visit our churches, we 
must by all means take care to provide them con- 
fessors by whom they may be well admonished, 
especially to a constant perseverance in their state of 
widowhood, and this, by enumerating and praising 
the advantages and felicity of a single life : and let 
them pawn their faiths, and themselves too, as a 
security that a firm continuance in such a pious 
resolution will infallibly purchase an eternal merit, 
and prove a most effectual means of escaping the 
otherwise certain pains of purgatory. 

II. And let the same confessors persuade them to 
engage in beautifying some chapel or oratory in their 
own houses as a proper place for their daily medita- 



58 SECKETA MOXLTA SOCIETATIS JESUo 

tationibus aliisque exercitiis spiritualibus vacare pos- 
sint, ut sic facilius a conversatione, et procorura, vis- 
itationibus avocentur; et quamvis sacellanum habe- 
ant, nostri tamen a celebratione Missse, et precipue 
ab exhortationibus opportune faciendis non abstin- 
eant, et sacellanum sub se continere studeanto 

3. Caute et sensim mutanda quas ad gubernatio- 
nem domus spectant, sic habita ratione personse, loci, 
affectus, et devotionis. 

4. Amoliendi potissimum tales domestici (sed pau- 
latim) qui plane cum societateaion communicant aut 
correspondent, talesque, commendandi, (si qui sub- 
stituendi sint) quia nostris dependeant ant depen- 
dere velint : sic enim omnium, qui in f amiliei agun- 
tur, participes esse poterimus. 

5. Totus conatus confessarii hoc spectet, ut vidua 
ejus consilio in omnibus utatur et acquiescat ; quod 
ostendetur per occasionem, esse unicum fundamen- 
tum profectus spiritualis. 

6. Consulatur et celebratur frequens usus sacra- 
mentorum, prsesertim poenitentise in quo intimia an- 
imi sensa et tentationes quascumque liberrime aper- 
iat, deinde frequens communio auditus sacri ipsiusmet 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 59 

tions and devotions. By this means they will be 
more easily disengaged from the conversation and 
address of importunate suitors; and although they 
have a chaplain of their OAvn, yet never let the con- 
fessors desist from celebrating mass, nor on all 
occasions giving them proper exhortations ; and 
to be sure (if possible) to keep the chaplain 
under. 

III. Matters which relate to the management of 
the house must be changed insensibly, and with tlie 
greatest prudence, regard being had to person, place, 
affection, and devotion. 

IV. Care must be taken to remove such servants 
particularly as do not keep a good understanding 
with the Society ; but let this be done by little and 
little ; and when we have managed to work them out, 
let such be recommended as already are, or willingly 
would become our creatures ; thus shall we dive into 
every secret, and have a finger in every affair trans- 
acted in the family. 

V. The confessor must manage his matter so that 
the widow may have such faith in him as not to do 
the least thing without his advice, and his only, which 
he may occasionally insinuate to be the only basis of 
her spiritual edification. 

VI. She must be advised to the frequent use and 
celebration of the sacraments, but especially that of 
penance ; because in that she freely makes a discovery 
of her most secret thoughts, and every temptation. 
In the next place, let her frequently communicate. 



60 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

confessarii, ad quod invitabitur cum promissis peculi- 
aribus precibus, recitatio litaniarum et quotidianum 
examen conscientise. 



7. Juvabit etiam non parum ad plenissimam cog- 
nitionem omnium inclinationum ejus, confessio gen- 
eralis, etiam si alias alteri facta fuerit, iterata. 

8. Exhortationes fient de bonis viduitatis, de mo- 
lestiis, matrimonii prsesertim iterati, de periculis quae 
simul incurruntur, etc., quae maxime ad hominem 
sunt. 

9. Proponendi subinde et dextre proci aliqui, sed 
tales a quibus scitur bene viduam abhorrere ; describ- 
antur aliorum vitia et mali mores, si qui putentur illi 
arridere, ut sic universim secundas nuptias nauseet. 



10, Quando ergo circa viduitatis statum bene af- 
fectam esse constat, tuno commendanda vita spiritu- 
alis, non religiosa, cujus incommoda potius propo- 
nenda, et exageranda, sed qualis fuit, Paulse et En- 
stachioe, etc. Prospiciatque confessarius ut quanto- 
tius voto castitatis saltern ad biennium vel triennium 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 61 

and apply for instructions to her confessor, to the 
performance of which she must be invited by promises 
of some prayers adapted to her particular occasions ; 
and lastly, let her every day rehearse the litany, and 
strictly examine her conscience. 

VII. It will be also a great help to the obtaining 
of a perfect knowledge of all her inclinations, to 
prevail with her to repeat a general confession, al- 
thoiigh she has formerly made it to another. 

VIII. Discourse must be made to her concerning 
the advantages of the state of widowhood, the incon- 
veniences of wedlock, especially Avhen it is repeated, 
and the dangers to which mankind expose themselves 
by it, but above all, such as more particularly affect 
her. 

IX. It will be proper, every now and then, cun- 
ningly to propose to her some match, but such a one, 
be sure, as you know she has an aversion to ; and if 
it be thought that she has a kindness for any one, 
let his vices and failings be represented to her in a 
proper light, that she may abhor the thoughts of 
altering her condition with any person whatsoever. 

X. When therefore it is manifest that she is well 
disposed to continue a widow, it will then be time to 
recommend to her a spiritual life, but not a recluse 
one, the inconveniences of which must be magnified 
to her ; but such a one as Paula s or EustacMa' s^ &c. 
and let the confessor, having as soon as possible pre- 
vailed with her to make a vow of chastity, for two or 



62 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESF. 

emisso, omnem aditum ad secundas nuptias excludat ; 
quo tempore omnis conversatio cum sexu imparl, et 
recreationes etiam cum consanguineis et affinibut 
prohibendse titulo majoris conjunctionis cum Deo. 
Ecclesiastic! antem a quibus vidua visitabilur, aut 
quos visitabit, si omnes excludi nequeant, tamen 
tales sint qui ex nostrorum commendatione admittan- 
tur, vel & nostrorum nutu dependeant. 

11. Hue usque ubi progressum fuerit, paulatim ad 
bona opera prsesertim eleemosynas indecenda erit 
vidua, quae tamen nulla ratione praestabit sine sui 
patris spiritualis directione ; cum plurimum intersit, 
ut cum discretione talentum in lucrum spirituale 
detur, et eleemosynae male colloctse sinssepe causa vel 
fomentum peccatorum, et sic simplicem tantum fruc- 
tum et meritum causent. 



CAPUT VII. 

Quomodo conservandce viduce^ et disponendum de honis^ 

quoe hahent. 

1. Urgeantur continuo ut pergant in devotione et 
operibus bonis, sic, ut nulla hebdomada transeat quin 
sua sponte aliquid in honorem Christi, beatae Vir- 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 63 

three years at least, take due care to oppose all ten- 
dencies to a second marriage : and then all conversa- 
tion with men, and diversions even with her near 
relations and kinsfolks must be forbidden her, under 
pretence of entering into a stricter union with God. 
As for the ecclesiastics, who either visit the widow, or 
receive visits from her, if thev all cannot be worked 
out, yet let none be admitted but what are either 
recommended by some of our society, or are depend- 
ants upon them. 

XI. When we have thus far gained our point, 
the widow must be, by little and little, excited to 
the performance of good works, especially those of 
charity ; which, however, she must by no means be 
suffered to do without the consent of her ghostly 
father, since it is of the last importance to her soul, 
that her talent be laid out with a prospect of obtain- 
ing spiritual interest ; and since charity ill-applied, 
often proves the cause and incitement to sins, which 
effaces the merit and reward that might otherwise 
attend it. 



CHAPTER VII. 

How such widows are to he secured^ and in what man- 
ner their effects are to be disposed of. 

I. They are perpetually to be pressed to a perse- 
verance in their devotion and good works, in such 
manner, that no week pass in which they do not, of 



64 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

ginis, at patroni sui praescindant a se de superfluis, 
quod ipsum in pauperes erogent, vel ornatus tern- 
plorum destinent, donee spoliis plerisque et primitiis 
^gypti sint exutse. 



2. Quod si prseter communem affeetum, suam erga 
soeietatem nostram, liberalitatem testentur, idque 
faeere eontinuent, fiant omnium meritorum soeietatis 
partieipes, eum indulto speeiali provineialis, aut 
etiam si tantse personse fuerint generalis. 

3. Si emiserint votum easitatis, renovent illud 
more nostro his in anno, concessa illis pro ilia die 
recreatione honestfi< cum nostris. 



4. Visitentur crebr6, et jecundis coUoquiis, et his- 
toriis spiritualibus, ac facetiis recreentur et f oveantur, 
juxtfi; uniuscujusque humorem et inclinationem. 

5. Non tractentur nimis rigid^ in confessione, ne 
morosse nimis fiant, nisi fort^ amissa spe gratiam il- 
larum aliunde occupatam recuperandi ; in quo magna 
discretione de inconstanti mulerium genio judican- 
dum. 



SECRET INSTKUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 65 

their own accord, lay somewhat apart out of their 
abundance for the honor of Christ, the blessed Virgin 
or their patron saint ; and let them dispose of it in 
relief of the poor, or in beaiitifying of churches, till 
they are entirely stripped of their superfluous stores 
and unnecessary riches. 

II. But if, besides their general acts of beneficence, 
they show a particular liberality to us, and continue 
in a course of such laudable works, let them be made 
partakers of all the merits of the society, and favored 
with a special indulgence from the provincial, or even 
from the general, if their quality be such as may in 
some measure demand it. 

III. If they have made a vow of chastity, let them, 
according to our custom, renew it twice a year; 
and let the day whereon this is done be set apart 
for innocent recreations with the members of the 
society. 

IV. Let them be frequently visited, and entertained 
in an agreeable manner, with spiritual stories ; and 
also diverted with pleasant discourses, according to 
their particular humors and inclinations. 

V. They must not be treated with too much 
severity, in confession, lest we make them morose 
and ill-tempered, unless their favor be so far en- 
gaged by others, that there is danger of not retaining 
it ; and in this case, great discretion is to be used in 
forming a judgment of the natural inconsistency of 
women. 



66 SECRET A MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

6. Arceantur ingeniose a visitationibus et festivi- 
tatibus aliorum templorum, maxime religiosorum, et 
inculcetur illis omnes aliorum ordinum indulgentias 
in societatem esse refusas. 



7. Si lugendum ipsis sit, permittatur ornatus lugu- 
bris cum honesta majestate aliquid spirituale simul et 
mundanum spirans, ut non apprehendant se a viro 
spirituali plane gubenari. Denique modo non sit 
periculum inconstantiaG, et erga societatem fideles et 
liberal es inveniantur, concedatur illis quidquid ad 
sensualitatem requirunt, moderate et excluso scan- 
dalo. 

8. CoUocentur apud viduos aliee puellae honestse et 
parentibus divitibus ac nobilibus natae, quae nostro- 
i*um directioni, et modo vivendi paulatim assuefiant. 
His prsesit aliqua a confessario totius familise ad hoc 
electa et constituta. Subjiciantur syndicationibus 
aliisque consuetudinibus societatis, et quae sese acco- 
modare nolunt, dimittantur ad parentes vel alios a 
qiiibus adductae erant, describantur tanquam dy- 
scolse, difficilis genii, etc. 



9. Nee minor cura sanitatis, et recreationis ilia- 
rum, quam salutis habenda erit : quar^ si de valetu- 
dine conquerantur, statim jejunia, cilicia, disciplinae 



SEGllET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 07 

VI. Good management must be used to prevent 
their visiting the churches of others, or seeing their 
feasts, but especially those of religious orders ; for 
which purpose, let them hear it often rejjeated, that 
all the indulgences of other orders are with greater 
extent contained in ours. 

VII. If they propose to put on a weed, give them 
the liberty of such a becoming dress as has in it an 
air both religious and f asliionable ; that they may 
not think they are altogether to be governed by their 
spiritual guide. Lastly, if there be no suspicion of 
their inconstancy, but they are, on the contrary, faith- 
ful and liberal to our Society, allow them in modera- 
tion, and without offence, whatever pleasures they 
have an inclination to. 

VIII. Let women that are young and descended 
from rich and noble parents, be placed with those 
widows, that they may, by degrees become subject to 
our directions, and accustomed to our method of 
living ; as a governess to these, let some woman be 
chosen and appointed by the family confessor; let 
these submit to all the censures, and other customs 
of the Society ; but such as will not conform them- 
selves, immediately dismiss to their parents, or those 
who put them to us, and let them be repres- 
ented as untractably stubborn, and of a perverse 
disposition. 

IX. Nor is less care to be taken of their health 
and recreations than of their salvation ; wherefore if 
ever they complain of any indisposition, immediately 



68 SECEETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

aliaeque poenitentise corporales, prohibebuntur : ne- 
que permittantur ad templum etiam exire, sed domi 
secreto et caut^ administrentiir. Dissimuletur cum 
illis ingressus in hortum vel collegium, modo secreto 
id fiat; permittantur coUoquia et recreationes sec- 
retae cum iis qui maxim^ arriserint. 

10. Pro dispositione redituum quos habet vidua in 
favorem societatis facienda, proponatur perfectio 
status hominum sanctorum, qui relicto mundo, pa- 
rentibus, et bonis abdicatis, cum magna resignatione 
et animi hilaritate Deo servierunt. Exponantur in 
ordine ad hoc quse habentur in constitutione et ex- 
amine societatis, de istius modi renuntiatione et ab- 
negatione omnium rerum. Allegentur exempla vid- 
uarum, quae sic bre vi in sanctas e vaserunt, cum spe 
canonizationis, is sic in finem usque perseveraverint, 
ostendaturque ipsis non defuturam ad hoc nostrorum 
apud pontificem auctoritatem. 

11. Imprimendum ipsis hoc firmiter, si conscientiae 
perfecta quiete frui velint, omnio sine murmuratione, 
tsedio, aut uUa reticentia interiori, sequendam esse 
tam in temporalibus quam in spiritualibus confes- 
sarii directionem, tanqudm d Deo peculiariter des- 
tinati. 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 69 

all fasting, canvas, discipline, and other corporal 
penance must be forbidden ; nor let them be permitted 
to stir abroad, even to church, but be attended at 
home with privacy and care. If they secretly steal 
into the garden, or college, seem as if you knew it not, 
and allow them the liberty of conversation and private 
diversions with those whose company is most agreea- 
ble to them. 

X. That a widow may dispose of what she has in 
favor of the Society, set as a pattern to her, the per- 
fect state of holy men, who having renounced the 
world, and forsaken their parents, and all that they 
had, with great resignation and cheerfulness of mind 
devoted themselves to the service of God. For the 
better effecting of this, let what is contained in the 
constitution and statutes of the Society, relating to 
this kind of renunciation, and forsaking of all things, 
be explained to them ; and let several instances of 
widows be brought, who thus in a short time became 
saints, in hopes of being canonized, if they continued 
such to the end. And let them be apprized, that our 
Society will not fail to use their interest at the court 
of Rome for the obtaining such a favor. 

XI. Let this be deeply imprinted on their minds, 
that, if they desire to enjoy perfect peace of con- 
science, they must, as well in matters temporal as 
spiritual, without the least murmuring, or inward 
reluctance, entirely follow the direction of their con- 
fessor, as one particularly allotted them by Divine 
providence. 



70 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESIJ. 

12. Instruendse etiam per occasionem, gratms esse 
si personis ecclesiasticis, maxime religiosis spectatae 
et exemplaris vito eleemosynas suas dent, non nij^i 
conscio turn et approbante confessario. 



13. Cavebunt dilligentissime confessarii ne quo- 
cumque prsetextu hujusmodi viduse illorum poeni- 
tentes alios religiosos invisant, aut familiaritatem 
cum illis ineant : quod ut impediant, conabuntur suo 
tempore deprsedicare societatem tanqu4m ordinem 
superlativum prse csetaris, et utilissimum in ecclesi&, 
majoris auctoritatis apud pontificem et principes om- 
nes ; perfectissimum in se, quia dimittit noxios et ini- 
doneos, adeoque sine spuma et fecibus vivit, quibus 
scutent monachi, plerumque indocti, bardi, segnes, 
salutis suae incurii, ventricolse, etc. 



14. Proponant confessarii et suadeant illis ordina- 
rias pensiones, et tributa, quibus subleventur annua- 
tim coUegiorum et domorum professarum debita, 
prsecipue domus professse romnae, nee immemores sint 
ornamentorum templi, cerse, vini, etc., ad celebratio- 
nem missse sacrificii necessariorum. 

16. Quod si in vita sua vidua ex pleno bona sua 
societati non inscripserit, proponatur illi per occasi- 



SECRET INSTUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 71 

XII. They must be also instructed upon every 
occasion, that their bestoAving of ahns to ecclesias- 
tics, and even to the religious of an approved and 
exemplary life, without the knowledge and approba- 
tion of their confessor, is not equally meritorious in 
the sight of God. 

XIII. Let the confessors take diligent care to pre- 
vent such widows as are their penitents, from visiting 
ecclesiastics of other orders, or entering into familiar- 
ity with them, under any pretence whatsoever; for 
which end, let them, at proper opportunities, cry up 
the Society as infinitely superior to all other orders ; 
of the greatest service in the church of God, and of 
greater authority with the Pope, and all princes ; and 
that it is the most perfect in itself, in that it discards 
all persons offensive or unqualified, from its commun- 
ity, and therefore is purified from that scum and 
dregs with Avhich these monks are infected, who, 
generally speaking, are a set of men, unlearned, 
stupid, and slothful, negligent of their duty, and 
slaves to their bellies. 

XIV. Let the confessors propose to them, and 
endeavor to persuade them to pay small pensions and 
contributions towards the yearly support of colleges 
and professed houses, but especially of the professed 
house at Rome; nor let them forget the ornaments of 
churches, wax-tapers, wine, &c., things necessary in 
the celebration of the sacrifice of mass. 

XV. If any widow does in her life-time make over 
her whole estate to the Society ; whenever opportunity 



72 SECKETA MOKITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

onem, et prsesertim ingrnente gravi morbo aut peric- 
ulo vitae, segestas, novitas et mnltitudo plurimorum 
coUegiorum nondtim fundatorum, inducanturque 
suaviter et fortiter ad sumptus faciendos, quibua 
seternam gloriam sunt fundaturse. 



16. Idem faciendum cum principibus, et benefac- 
toribus aliis, persuadendum, inquam, ea qu86 perpe- 
tua sunt in hoc mundo et in altero aeternam illis glo- 
riam a Deo paritura. Quod si hinc inde aliqui male- 
voli allegent exemplum Christi qui non habebat ubi 
caput reclinaret, velintque socios Jesu similiter esse 
pauperrimos, ostendatur et serio imprimatur, passim 
omnibus, ecelesiam Dei nunc mutatam et monarch- 
iam factam, quae auctoriate et potentia magn& tueri 
se debet, contra potentissimos inimicos, et esse lapi- 
dem ilium parvum excisum qui crevit in montem 
maximum, praedictum per porphetam. 



17. Istis quae addictae sunt eleemosynis et ornatui 
templorum, ostendatur crebro, summam perfectionem 
in eo consistcre, quod terrenarum rerum amore sese 
exuentes, ipsum Christum ejusque socios, earum pos- 
sessores faciant. 



SECRET INSTRTJCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 73 

offers, but especially when she is seized with sickness, 
or in danger of life, let some take care to represent 
to her the poverty of the greatest number of our 
colleges, whereof many just erected have hardly as 
yet any foundation; engage her, by a winning be- 
haviour and inducing arguments, to such a liberality 
as (you must persuade her) will lay a certain founda- 
tion for her eternal happiness. 

XVI. The same art must be used with princes and 
other benefactors ; for they must be wrought up to a 
belief, that these are the only acts which will per- 
petuate their memories in this world, and secure them 
eternal glory in the next : but should any persons out 
of ill-will pretend to trump up the example of our 
Saviour, who had not whereon to lay his head, and 
from thence urge that the Society of Jesus ought to 
distinguish themselves by their poverty, in answer 
to such insinuations as these^ we must seriously 
inculcate on the minds of all, that the state of the 
church, being altered from what it was, and now 
changed into a monarchy, it cannot maintain its 
ground against mighty enemies, unless supported by 
great authority and power, and that it is that little 
stone which was foretold by the prophet should be 
hewn out of the rock, and afterwards rise in a vast 
mountain. 

XVII. Those who are inclined to acts of charity, 
and the adorning of temples, should be frequently 
told that the height of perfection consists in with- 
drawing their affections from earthly things, thereby 
making Christ and his followers possessors of them. 



74 SECBETA MOiSriTA SOCIETATIS JESU- 

18. Sed quia minus semper sperandum 4 viduis 
qu8B liberos suos ad seculum dirigunt, videbimus. 



CAPUT VIII. 

Quomodd faciendum ut filii et filice viduarem religio- 
sum aut devotorium statum amplectantur. 

1. Sicut matribus fortiter, sic nostris suaviter in 
hac materia est agendum Matres, nimirum, instru- 
endse ut proli suae reprehensionibus, castigationibus, 
etc., molestse sint 4 teneris ; dum provectiores prse- 
sertim filise fuerint, muliebrem ornatum et clenodias 
illis negent, optando saope et Deum rogando ut ad 
statum ecclesiasticum adspirent et poUicendo insig- 
nem dotem si moniales esse voluerint. Exponant 
saepe difficultates quae in matrimonio sunt omnibus 
communes, et si quas ipsaemet in particulari expertae 
sint, dolendo quod caelibatum suo tempore, matrimo- 
nio non praetulerint, denique sic agant continue, ut 
filiae praesertim, taedio vitae apud matrem tali modo 
transigendae, de statu religioso cogitent. 



SECRET INSTBUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 75 

XVIII. But since our expectations must necessarily 
be less from widows that educate their children for 
the business of the world; we shall now proceed 
to lay down methods proper for preventing this 
inconvenience. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

How widows are to he treated^ that they may embrace 
religion^ or a devoted life. 

I. As it will behove the widows to act with 
resolution, so must we proceed with gentleness upon 
this occasion. Let the mothers be instructed to use 
their children harshly, even from their cradles, by 
plying them with reproofs and frequent chastisements, 
&c. And when their daughters are near grown up 
to discretion, let them be especially denied the com- 
mon dress and ornaments of their sex ; at all times 
offering up prayers to God, that he would inspire 
them with a desire of entering into a religious order, 
and promising them very plentiful portions, on condi- 
tion they would become nuns; let them lay before 
them the many inconveniences attending every one 
in a married state, and those in particular which they 
themselves have found by woful experience; often 
lamenting the great misfortunes of their younger 
years, in not having preferred a single life. And 
lastly, let them persist to use them In this manner, 



76 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU, 



2. Cum filiis conversentur nostri familiariter, si- 
quidem ad societatem nostram apti visi fuerint, in- 
troducantur opportune in collegium, et ostendantur, 
explicenturque illis ea, quae quoquo modo grata fu- 
tura, et ad societatem amplectendam invitatura cre- 
duntur, ut sunt horti, vineae, domus rurales, et prae- 
dia, ubi nostri sese recreant ; narretur illis itineratio 
ad diversa regna, communicatio cum principibus 
mundi, et qusecumque juvenilem setatem oblectant, 
in refectorio et cubiculis exterior mundities, blanda 
conversatio inter nostros, regulse nostrse facilitas, cui 
tamen compromissa est gloria Dei, ordinis denique 
nostri super alios prseeminentia, et coUoqui simul 
faceta cum piis commisceantur. 

3. Moneantur quasi ex revelatione interdum ad re- 
ligionem in genere, deinde caut^ insinuetur perfectio 
et commoditas nostrsB prse cseteris ; exponanturque 
tum in publicis exhortationibus, tum in privatis col- 
loquiis, quam sit grave contra vocationem divinam' 
calcitrare, tandem que inducantur ad facienda exer- 
citia spiritualia, ut de statu vitae deligendo conclu- 
dant. 

4. Procurent nostri ut hujusmodi adolescentes in- 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 77 

that their daughters may think of a religious 
state, being tired by leading such a life with their 
mothers. 

II. Let our members converse familiarly with their 
sons, and if they seem fit for our turn, introduce 
them occasionally into the college, and let everything 
be shown with the best face, to invite them to enter 
themselves of the order ; as the gardens, vineyard, 
country-seats, and villas, where those of our Society 
pass an agreeable life ; let them be informed of our 
travels into several parts of the world, of our familiar- 
ity with princes, and whatever else may be agreeable 
to youth : let them see the outward neatness of our 
refectories and chambers, the agreeable intercourse 
we have one with another, the easiness of our rules, 
which yet has the promise of the glory of God; and 
lastly, the pre-eminence of our order above all others; 
not forgetting, amidst our discourses of piety, 
to entertain them also with pleasant and diverting 
stories. 

IIIo Let us now and then (as if by divine inspira- 
tion) exhort them to religion in general; and then 
artfully insinuate the perfection and conveniences of 
our institution above others ; and take care to set in 
a due light, both in public exhortations and private 
discourses, how heinous a crime it is to resist the 
immediate call of God ; and lastly, let them be soothed 
to the performance of spiritual exercises to determine 
them in the choice of such a state of life. 

IV. We must also take care to provide for these 



78 SECliETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

structores habeant societati addictos, qui continuo 
invigilent et hortentur; si autem rekictentur, sub- 
trahantur hinc inde aliqua, ut tsedeo vitse afficiantur. 
Exponat mater difficultates familise. Tandem, si 
non it4 commode fieri possit, ut sua sponte animum 
ad societatem adjiciant, mittantur titulo studiorum 
ad remota societatis gymnasia, et ex parte matris 
pauca submittantur solatia, ex parte vero societatis 
adhibeantur lenocinia, ut affectum in nos tros trans- 
ferant. 



CAPUT IX. 

De reditibus collegiorum augendis, 

1. Nemo quantum fieri poterit ad ultimam profes- 
sionem admittatur, quamdiu successiones aliquas ex- 
spectet, nisi fratrem se juniorem habeat in societate, 
vel ob alias graves causas ; in omnibus tamen et ante 
omnia consulendum est amplificationi societatis se- 
cundum fines superibus notos, qui in hoc saltem con- 
spirent, ut ecclesia ad majorem gloriam Dei pristino 
nitori restituatur, et totius cleri non nisi unus sit 



SECRET INSTKUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 79 

youth's tutors that are firmly attached to our inter- 
est; who must keep a strict eye over them, and con- 
tinually exhort them to such a course of life ; but 
should they seem reluctant, abridge them of some of 
their former liberties, that by such restraint they may 
become conformable. Let their mothers set forth 
the difficulties which the family labor under ; and if, 
after all, they cannot be brought of their own accord 
to desire admission into the Society, send them to 
distant colleges belonging to the order, under the 
notion of keeping them closer to their studies ; and 
from their mothers let them receive little countenance, 
but let our members make use of the most alluring 
behaviour, that their affections may be brought over 
to us. 



CHAPTER TX. 

Of increasing the revenues of our Colleges. 

I. Never admit any person, if it can well be pre- 
vented, to his last degree, so long as he shall have an 
expectation of any estate falling to him, unless he 
has a brother in the Society who is younger than 
himself, or some other important reasons require it ; 
but above all things, and in every action, the increase 
of the Society must be regarded, for ends known to 
the superiors ; who in this point (no doubt) agree 
that, for the greater displaying of God's glory, the 
church should be restored to its ancient splendor by 



80 SECKETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

spiritus ; quocirca frequenter monendum est et pas 
Sim promulgandum, societatem partim constare ex 
professii adeo mendicis, ut prseter largitiones quoti- 
dianas fidelium, careant omnibus omnino, partim 
etiam aliis patribus pauperibus quidem sed qui pos- 
sident bona stabilia, ne sint in gravamen populi pro 
studiis ac functionibus suis, ut sunt caeteri mendi- 
cantes ; indeoque seri6 inculcent confessarii princi- 
pum, magnatum, viduarum, et aliorum 4 quibus so- 
cietas multum sperare potest, ea quae banc materiam, 
concernunt, ut dtim spiritualia illis conferunt et di- 
vina, ad minimum terrena et temporalia ab illis re- 
recipiant, neque vix unquam omittant occasiones re- 
cipiendi cum offertur. Si autem promissum fuerit 
et differatur, prudenter in memoriam revocetur, 
quantum tamen fieri potest omnem affectum erga 
divitias dissimulando. Quod si qui ex confessariis 
sive magnatum sive aliorum ad hsec in praxin redi- 
genda minus industrius videatur, tempori et caute 
amoveatur, alio in locum eus suffecto ; et si necessa- 
rium sit ad majorem poenitentium satisfactionem, ad 
remotiora collegia relegetur, dicendo societatem plu- 
rimtim illius persona ac talentis ibidem indigere. 
Nuper enim audivimus juvenes viduas immatura 
morte prseventas, negligentia nostrorum supellecti- 
lem valde pretiosam, templis societatis dicatam non 



SECRET IXSTiiUCTlOXS OF THE JESUITS. 81 

the perfect harmony of all its clergy. Wherefore let 
it frequently, in every place, be published, that the 
Society consists partly of professors so very poor, 
that, excepting the daily alms of the faithful, they 
are entirely destitute of the common necessaries of 
life ; and partly by others, poor indeed, but possessed 
of some little matters, by help whereof they subsist, 
being, neither for their studies, nor the duties they 
perform, an incumbrance to the people, as other 
mendicants are. Therefore let confessors of princes, 
and noblemen, widows and others, (from whom our 
expectations may reasonably be large) with great 
seriousness inculcate this notion, that while we 
administer to them in divine and spiritual things, 
they at least should, in return, contribute to us of 
their earthly and temporal : and let no opportunity 
ever be slipt of receiving from them whatever is 
offered : and if anything be promised, and the per- 
formance delayed, take care to remind them thereof 
with prudence, and in such a manner as may best 
conceal our love of riches. But should any con- 
fessor, either of noblemen, or others, seem the least 
negligent to put in practice these rules, let him, at a 
proper opportunity, be removed, and put another 
more fit in his room ; and should it be necessary, for 
the greater satisfaction of the penitents, let him be 
sent to one of the most distant colleges, saying, that 
a person of his ability would be there of much greater 
service to the Society : for we have lately been in- 
formed that several young widows, being snatched 
away by sudden death, did not bequeath to us their 



82 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

legasse, c6 quod tempestive acceptata non esset ; ne- 
que est ad similia acceptanda tempus, sed bona poeii- 
itentium voluntas spectanda est. 



2. Praelati, canonici, partores, aliique opulent! ec- 
clesiastici industriis variis ad exercitia spiritualia 
sunt alliciendi, et paulatim sic mediante affectu erga- 
res spirituales societati conciliandi, delude eorum lib- 
eralitas paulatim prognosticanda. 

3. Non negligant confessarii interrogare poeniten- 
tes suos (opportune tamen) de nomine, familia, affin- 
ibus, parentibus, amicis bonis dein spectare successi- 
ones illorum, statum, intentionem ac resolutionem ; 
quam si nondum sumpserint societati favorabilem, 
oportebit persuadere ; quod si spes alicujus utilitatis 
prima fronte affulgeat, quia non expedit de omnibus 
simul interrogare, jubeantur sive titulo majoris eluci- 
dationis conscientiae sive pcenitentise medicinalis, heb- 
domatim confiteri, et lioneste ab eodem confessario 
invitentur ut, quod una vix inquirere non potuit, 
pluribus inquirat. Quod si successerit ex voto, si 
femina fuerit, ad persistendum in frequenti confessi- 
one et visitatione ; si vir ad sodalitatem frequenten- 
dam, et familiaritatem nostrorum, quoque modo indu- 
catur. 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 83 

valuable effects through the negligence of some lueni- 
bers who did not take care to accept of them in due 
time ; for in getting these things, regard is not 
to be had to the time, but the good inclination of the 
penitent. 

II. Let various wiles be used to draw prelates, 
canons, pastors, and other rich ecclesiastics to the 
exercise of spiritual acts, that through their affec- 
tion for holy things, we may gradually gain them 
to the Society ; and by that means promise our- 
selves to be in some measure partakers of their 
liberality. 

III. Confessors must remember to sift out of their 
penitents, at proper opportunities, what family, 
relations, parents, friends, and effects, they have ; 
then learn their reversions, state, intention, and reso- 
lution, which they must endeavor to mould in favor 
of the Society, if it be not so already. If, at first 
trial, we have prospect of advantage, (it being 
improper to pry into all things at once,) let the same 
confessor, under pretence of better clearing their 
conscience, or doing some soul-saving penance, 
strictly enjoin them to make weekly confessions: 
and gravely, and with a seeming honest intention, 
invite them to it, that he may have the better 
opportunity to propose the questions, at several times, 
which he could not so conveniently offer at once. 
The matter succeeding according to his wish ; if it 
be a female penitent, let all ways be tried to in- 
duce her to persist in frequent confessions, and 



84: SECHETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU, 



4. Quae de viduis dicta sunt, eadem agenda circa 
mercatores, cives opulentos, et conjugates prole ca- 
rentes, intelligantur ; a qviibus non raro societas ex 
asse haereditatem acquiret, si prudenter hae praxes 
executioni mandentur. Potissimum autem hsec ob- 
servanda erunt, circa opulentas devoterias nostros 
frequentantes, quge si non sint parentibus valde no- 
bilibus natse tantum ad summum poterit vulgus ob- 
murmurare. 

5. Rectores coUegiorum conabuntur habere noti- 
tiam domorum, hortorum, praediorum, vicarum, pa- 
gorum, caeterumque bonorum, quae k primariis nobil- 
ibus, mercatoribus aut civibus possidentur, et si fieri 
potest, gravaminum ac redituum, quibus onerantur ; 
sed caute id praest^ndum et efficacissime per confessi- 
onem, sodalitatem, ac privata colloquia. Quod si 
confessarius poenitentem divitem adeptus sit, con- 
tinuo rectorem moneat, et omni modo fovere conetur. 

6. Porro summa rei in eo constituenda est, quod 
nostri omnes apposite benevolentiam poenitentium, et 
aiiorum, quibuscum conversantur captare norint, et 
singulorum inclinationi se accommodare. Quaprop- 



SECBET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 85 

constant attendance on the service of the church. If 
a male, to frequent the company of the members of 
our Society, and to endeavor to enter into a familiarity 
with them. 

IV. What has been said, in relation to widows, 
must be made use of towards merchants, rich citizens, 
and married people who are are childless ; whose 
entire estates the Society may often acquire, provided 
these^ rules be prudently put in practice ; but, chiefly 
they must be observed with respect to rich female 
devotees, who often converse with our members ; 
upon whose account the common people can but 
grumble at most, unless they happen to be descended 
from very noble families. 

V. Let the rectors of colleges endeavor to procure 
through information of the houses, gardens, farms, 
vineyards, villages, and other effects belonging to 
the prime nobility, merchants and citizens ; and (if 
possible) of the taxes and rents with which they are 
incumbered ; but this may be done with caution, and 
most effectually at confessions, in familiar conversa- 
tion, and private discourses. And whenever a con- 
fessor has got a rich penitent, let him immediate^ 
inform the rectors, and try all Avinning artifices to 
secure him. 

VI. But the whole success of our affairs turns 
chiefly on this point ; viz. That all our members, by 
studying a compliaiice Avith every one's humor, work 
themselves into the good graces of their penitents, 
and others they converse with ; to which end, 



86 SECKETA MOKITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

ter ad loca quae a divitibus et nobilibus inhabitantur, 
provinciales provideant ut multi mittantur ; ut pro- 
vinciales id prudentitis ac felicitis faciant, rectores de 
messe illos accurate instruere suo tempore memine- 
rint. 



7. Inquirant etiam an contractus et possessiones, 
per receptiones filiorum in societatem, ad illam trans- 
ire possint ; et si fieri potest explorent an bona aliqua 
sic per pactum aliquod conducta, vel aliter coUegio 
cadere possint, ut post tempus societati cedant ad 
quem finem societatis necessitas, et gravamen debito- 
rum omnibus praesertim magnatibus et divitibus in- 
timanda erunt. 



8. Si congerit viduas aut conjugatos, divites nobis 
addictos tanttim habere filias, eas nostri blande diri- 
gent ad statum devotorium, vel ad religionem mona- 
lium ; dote aliqua illis relicta, csetera societati paulatim 
acquirentur. Quod si filios liabeant, qui societati apti 
erunt, ad illam allicientur, alii ad alias religiones, 
etiam certo minimo compromisso inducendi erunt. 
Sed si filius unicus sit, quibuslibet modis ad societa- 
tem pertrahendus erit, eique metus omnis parentum 
ex animo removendus, et vocatio Cliristii inculcanda 



SECRET mSTUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 87 

where places are inhabited by the rich and noble, 
there let the provincials take care to send a consider- 
able number : and that they may perform this with 
more prudence and success, let the rectors not omit 
giving them full instruction (as occasion requires) 
what a plentiful harvest is like to crown their 
endeavors. 

VII. Let inquiry be made, whether, by taking 
their children into the order, their contracts and pos- 
sessions may fall to the Society ; and if so, whether, 
should they enter into an agreement with us, any 
part of their effects could be made over to the col- 
lege in such a manner, that it may, after a limited 
time, revert unto us ; and for the better success in 
this affair, let the necessities of the Society, 
and the load of debts they labor under, be par- 
ticularly represented to the nobility and those that 
are rich. 

VIII. If it happen that the widows and rich mar- 
ried people, who are our friends, have daughters 
only, let these be persuaded by our members to make 
choice of a religious life ; that a small fortune being 
left to them, the Society, may, by degrees, get the 
rest into their possession : and if they have sons who 
are fit for our turn, let them be allured to us, and the 
others be enticed, by the promise of small rewards, 
to enter themselves of different orders. But should 
there be an only son, let no means be omitted for the 
bringing him over to the Society, and freeing him 
from all fear of his parents ; let him be persuaded it 



88 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

est, ostendendo etiam Deo sacriiicium gratissimum 
fore, si parentibus insciis et invitis aufugerit ; deinde 
mittatur ad novitiatum remotum, praemoiiito prius 
general!. Quod si filios et Alias habeant, pritis filiee 
in monasterium vel statum devotiorum dirigantur, 
deinde filii in societatem cum successione honorum 
petrahantur. 



9. Superiores hujusmodi viduarum et conjugatorum 
confessarios suaviter et fortiter moneant, ut sese 
utiliter pro societate secundum haec monita impend- 
ant ; quod si non f ecerint, alii eorum loco substituan- 
ter et ipsi removeantur, sic ut notitiam cum ilia fa- 
milia fovere non possint. 



10. Viduae vel alise personse devotee, quae videntur 
magno affectu ad perfectionem tendere, inducantur 
ad hoc tanqu4m ad efficacissimum medium perveniendi 
ad apicem perfectionis, si omnes snas possessiones 
societati cedant, et vivant annona societatis, quae illis 
secundiim, exigentiam continuo administrabitur, ut 
sine uUa cura ac soUicitudine Deo liberius serviant. 

11. Ad persuadendam efficacius paupertatem socie- 
tatis addictis mutuent pecunias sub chirographo, qua- 
rum solutio differatur ; deinde tempore morbi praeser- 



SECRET INSTKUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 89 

is a call from above; and shown how acceptable a 
sacrifice it would be to God, should he desert his 
parents without their knowledge or consent ; if this 
be affected, let him enter his novicate in a remote 
college, having first given information to the general. 
But if they happen to have both sons and daughters, 
let the daughters be first disposed of in a nunnery ; 
and afterwards let the sons be drawn into the Society 
when they are got into possession of their sisters' 
effects. 

IX. Let superiors earnestly, but with mildness, 
advise the confessors of such widows, and married 
people, to apply themselves industriously for the 
service of the Society, according to the instructions 
before laid down ; but if they will not act conforma- 
ble thereto, let others be substituted in their places, 
and they removed a good way off, to prevent them 
from keeping up the least correspondence with any of 
the family. 

X. Let the widows or other devotees, who seem 
with fervency to aspire at spiritual perfection, be 
brought to give up all they have to the Society, and 
be contented to live upon such allowance as we from 
time to time shall think they have occasion for ; that, 
by easing their minds of the cares and anxieties of 
worldly affairs, they may be more at liberty for the 
service of God. 

XL The better to convince the world of the Socie- 
ty's poverty, let the superiors borrow money on bond, 
of some rich persons who are our friends, and when it 



90 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

tim periculosi talis persona constanter visitetur, et 
omni ratione prseveniatur, ut tandem moveatur ad 
reddendum chirographum ; sic enim nostri non agnos- 
centur testamento, et interim niliilomintis lucrabimur 
absque invidias uccedentium in bona morientis. 

12. Conveniet etiam ab aliquibus personis pecu- 
niam sub annuo reditu sumere, et eamdem nummo 
altiori alibi constituere, ut reditus reditum compen- 
set ; interim enim fieri poterit, ut amici, qui pecunias 
sic mutuo dederunt, misericordia nostri moti, lucrum 
aut subinde etiam capitale, sive testamento, sive do- 
natione inter vivos, societati cedant, dtim collegia 
strunntur, aut templae sedificantur. 

13. Utiliter etiam societas sub nomine mercatorum, 
divitum nobis addictorum negotiari poterit; sed re- 
spiciendum certum ac copiosum lucrum, etiam in 
Indiis, quse societati non tantum animas, verum etiam 
opes multas hactenus, Deo favente, subministrarunt. 



14. Procurent nostri habere in locis ubi resident, 
medicum aliquem societati fidelem, quem apud segros 
prse cseteris prsecipue commendent et extoUant; ut 
vicissim ipse nostros prse cseteris religiosis commen- 



SECKET INS.TRUCTIOKS OF THE JESUITS. 91 

IS due defer the payment thereof. Afterwards let 
the person who lent the money (especially in time of 
dangerous sickness) be constantly visited, and by all 
methods wrought upon to deliver, up the bond; by 
this means Ave shall not be mentioned in the deceased's 
will ; and yet gain handsomely without incurring the 
ill-will of the heirs. 

XII. It Avill also be proper to borrow money of 
some at a yearly interest, and dispose of it to others 
at a higher rate, that the income on one hand may 
more than answer the outgo on the other. For in the 
meantime it may happen that our friends, to whom 
we are indebted, compassionating the necessities of the 
Society, when they find us engaged in erecting of 
colleges, or building of churches, may by will, or 
donation in their life-times, forgive us the interest, 
and may be the principal. 

XIII. The Society may also advantageously 
traffic under the borrowed name of some rich 
merchants, our friends; but never without a pros- 
pect of certain and abundant gain; and this may 
be done even to the Indies^ which hitherto, by the 
bountiful favor of God, have furnished us not only 
with souls, but also plenteously supplied our coffers 
with wealth. 

XIV. In whatever places our members reside, let 
them never omit to provide a physician who is firm 
to the interest of the Society: him let them recom- 
mend to the sick, and prefer before all others ; that 
he, in return, by extolling our Society above all other 



92 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

dans, efficiat ut passi apucl primarios segrotos et 
praesertim moribundos yocemur. 

15. Confessarii sint assidui in visitandis segris po- 
tissimiim qui periclitantur, et ut alios religiosos ac 
ecclesiasticos inde lioneste eliminent, procurent super- 
iores, ut tempore illo quo confessarius discedere cog- 
itur ab segroto, continue alii succedant, et segrotum 
in bonis propositis f oveant ; interim incultiendus erit 
prudenter horror inferni, etc., ad minimum purgato- 
rium, demonstrandumque, quod sicut aqua exstinguit 
ignem, sic eleemosyna extinguit peccatum ; nusquam 
autem melius eleemosynas impendi posse qu4m in 
hujus modi personarum alimentum ac subsidium qui 
ex vocatione sua profitentur charitatem erga saluteni 
proximi ; sic enim illius participes f aciendos, et satis- 
facturos aegrotos pro peccatis propriis, quia charitas 
operiit multitudinem peccatorum ; describi potest 
quoque charitas. tanquam vestis ilia nuptialis, sine 
qua nemo admittitur ad mensam coelestem. Denique 

ex scriptur^ et Sanctis patribus alleganda erunt, quae, 
respectu habito ad capacitatem aegroti, efficacissima 
judicabuntur ad ilium permoyendum. 

16. Muliers conquerentes de vitiis aut molestiis 
suorum maritorum, doceantur subtrahere secreto 
summam aliquam pecuniae, illamque Deo offerre pro 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 93 

religious orders, may occasion us to be called to all 
persons of distinction, when afflicted with sickness, 
but chiefly to such as are past hopes of recovery. 

XV. Let the confessors be constant in visiting the 
sick, but especially such as are thought to be in 
danger ; and that the ecclesiastics and members of 
other orders may be discarded with a good pretence, 
let the superiors take care that when the confessor is 
obliged to withdraw, others may immediately succeed, 
and keep up the sick person in his good resolutions. 
At this time it may be advisable to move him by 
apprehensions of hell, &c., at least of purgatory ; and 
tell him, that as fire is quenched by water, so sin is 
extinguished by acts of charity ; and that alms can 
never be better bestowed than for the nourishment 
and support of such who by their calling profess a 
desire to promote the salvation of their neighbor. 
Thus will the sick become partakers of our merit, and 
by it atone for the sins they have committed ; for 
charity covers a multitude of sins. This virtue may 
be also represented to them as that wedding-gar- 
ment, without which no one is admitted to the 
heavenly feast. Next let some passages be quoted 
out of the sacred writ, and holy fathers, which 
(regard being had to the sick person's capacity) shall 
be judged most proper for persuading him to a 
compliance. 

XVI. Lastly, let the women who complain of the 
vices or ill-humor of their husbands, be instructed 
secretly to withdraw a sum of money, that by making 



94 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESXJ. 

expiandis peccatis maritorum et impetranda illis 
grati&. 



CAPUT X. 

De disciplince hujus rigore privatce in societate, 

1. Dimittendus erit quilibet vel cujusvis condi- 
sionis vel setatis, alio colore qusesito tanqudm hostis 
societatis, qui devotas nostras vel alios amicos aliena 
verit d templo nostro vel frequentatione nostrorum, 
aut eleemosynas ad alia templa, vel religioso diver- 
terit, vel alicui opulento, ant bene societati congrno 
iliam dissnaserit ; turn etiam qui circa tempns, quo de 
bonis propriis disponendum erat, affectum erga con- 
sanguineos potius qu4in erga societatem, ostenderint; 
hoc enim magnum immortificati animi signum est, et 
convenit professos esse plane mortificatos, item qui 
eleemosynas 4 poenitentibus aut aliis amicis societatis 
ablatas ad consanguineos suos pauperes diverterint. 
Ut autem de causa dimissionis suae posted non con- 
querantur, non dimittantur statim, sed prohibeantur 
prim6 ab audiendis confessionibus, mortificentur et 
vexentur exercitiis vilissimorum officiorum ; cogantur 
ad ea in dies prsestanda a quibus aversionem maxi- 



SECRET INSTEUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 95 

an offering thereof to God, they may expiate the 
crimes of their isinful help-mates, and secure a pardon 
for them. 



CHAPTER X. 

Of the private rigor of discipline in the Society. 

I. Whoever hath alienated our female devotees or 
other friends, from our churches, or frequent converse 
with our members : whoever hath withdrawn alms to 
other churches or orders, themselves, or persuaded 
the rich and well-inclined to us, to do it ; whoever, at 
the time of disposal of their effects, hath shown a 
greater affection to their near relations, than to the 
Society : (a plain demonstration of an unmortified 
mind, and directly contrary to the thorough mortifi- 
cation enjoined professors :) whoever hath converted 
the alms of penitents, or of other of our friends, to 
the use of their own necessitous kinsfolks : let them 
all be discarded, as enemies to the Society, of what 
age or condition soever they be ; yet for this, let 
some other pretence be alleged. But to prevent their 
making complaint of this usage, let them not be 
expelled immediately, but first be restrained from 
hearing confessions, be plagued and perplexed with 
exercise of the most servile offices ; be obliged to 
perform such duties, to which it is evident they have 
an utter aversion ; let them be removed from higher 



96 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JEStT. 

mam habere cognoscuntur : removeantur ab altioribus 
studiis ac honorificis muniis ; urgeantur capitulis ac 
reprehensionibus publicis ; arceantur 4 recreationibus, 
et conversatione externorum : subtrahantur in vesti- 
bus, aliisque utensilibus, ea quae omniii6 necessaria 
non sunt, donee ad murmurationem et impatientiam 
inducantur, et tunc tanqu4m nimis immortificati, et 
aL'Ls malo exemplo perniciosi dimittantur ; et si ratio 
dimissionis parentibus aut prselatis ecclesiee danda sit, 
dicantur non habuisse spiritum societatis. 

2. Dimittendi insuper erunt qui scrupulum fece- 
rint in acquirendis societati bonis dicanturque esse 
nimium proprio judico addicti. Quod si apud pro- 
vinciales rationem facti sui reddere voluerint, non 
audiantur, sed urgeantur ad regulam quae omnes ob- 
ligat ad csecam obedientiam prsestandam. 

3. Reflectendum erit ab initio et a teneris, quinam 
, maxime in affectu erga societatem proficiant, qui au- 

tem affectum erga alios ordines, aut pauperes, aut 
parentes tenere deprehenduntur, cum sint futuri in 
utiles, modo suprd dicto, paulatim ad dimissionem 
disponantur. 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 97 

studies and honorable employments, and harassed 
with chapters and public censures, let them be 
debarred of recreations, and conversation Avith 
strangers, and be denied, in dress and everything 
else, whatever is not absolutely necessary ; till by such 
rigorous methods of chastisement, they become im- 
patient, and murmuring against us ; let them then be 
dismissed, as persons not duly mortified, whose bad 
example may be pernicious to others ; and if the rea- 
son of their expulsion be required by their parents, 
or the prelates of the church, let them be 
represented as not having the true spirit of the 
Society. 

II. Let such also be dismissed who make a scruple 
of acquiring riches for the Society, and set forth as 
persons too much in love with their own opinions : 
and if they desire to give an account of their actions 
before the provincials, let them not be heard, but 
compelled to conform themselves to the statute, 
which commands implicit obedience from all. 

III. Let us observe, from the first entrance, and 
even from their tender years, who they are that make 
the greatest advances in their affection for us : and 
let such as are found to retain a love, either for other 
orders, the poor, or their parents, be by little and lit- 
ilo, disposed for dismission, according to the method 
already mentioned, since they are not likely to prove 
of any service to the Society. 



98 SECRET A MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

CAPUT XI. 

Qualiter se nostri unanimiter proestahunt contra di- 
missos 6 societate, 

1. Qnoni&m demissi soltem aliquorum secretorum 
conscii sunt, plerumque obsunt ; ac proinde eorum 
conatibus obviandum erit his modis : antequam e 
societate dimittantiir, inducantur ut permittant 
scrip to, et jurent se nihil de societate unquam sinistri 
scripturos vel dicturos. Interim superiores servent 
scripto malas inclinationes, defectus ac vitia illorum, 
quae ipsi aliquando in manifestatione conscientise pro 
more societatis dederunt, quibus si necesse fuerit, so- 
cietas apud magnates et prselatos ad illorum promo- 
tionem impediendam se juvare poterit. 



2. Scribatur quamprimum per collegia, quinam 
dimissi sint, exaggerenturque causae dimissionis gen- 
erales, immortificatio animi, indbedientia, parvus af- 
fectus erga exercitia spiritualia, proprium judicium, 
etc. Deinde moneantur alii omnes ne cum illis uUa 
ratione correspondeant ; et si ab externis de demissis 
mentio fiat, loquantur omnes uniformiter, et passim 
dicant, societatem neminem dimittere sine gravibus 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 99 

CHAPTER XI. 

Hotv our members are unanimously to behave towards 
those who are expelled the Society, 

I. Since those that are dismissed, do frequently 
very much prejudice the Society by divulging such 
secrets as they have been privy to ; their attempts 
must therefore be obviated in the following manner. 
Let them be prevailed upon, before they are dismissed, 
to give it under their hands, and swear that they 
never will, directly, or indirectly, either write or 
speak anything to the disadvantage of the order; and 
let the superiors keep upon record the evil inclina- 
tions, failings and vices, which they, according to the 
custom of the Society, for discharge of their con- 
sciences, formerly confessed: this, if ever they 
give us occasion, may be produced by the Society, to 
the nobility and prelates, as a very good handle to 
prevent their promotion. 

II. Let it be immediately published through all our 
colleges, that such and such are dismissed; and let 
the general causes of their expulsion (such as an un- 
mortified mind, disobedience, disaffection for spiritual 
exercises, an obstinate adherence to their own opin- 
ions, &c.) be highly aggravated. In the next place, 
let all be advised to keep no correspondence with 
them upon any account whatsoever. And if strangers 
should happen to make any mention of them, let all 
our members unanimously affirm, in every public 



100 SEOKETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

causis, ejicere instar maris cadavera, etc. Insinuen- 
tur etiam caute hujus modi causae, propter quas odio 
habemur, ut plausibilior sit dimissio. 



3. In domesticis exhortationibus persuadeatur di- 
missos esse plane inquieto^, et continue societatem 
repetre ; exaggerenturque infortunia eorum qui post 
dicessum a societate male perierunt. 



4. Obviandum etiam erit accusationibus, quas de- 
missi § societate facere possent, per auctoritatem 
virorum gravium, qui passim declarent societatem 
neminem sine gravi causa dimittere, neque praescin- 
dere sana membra ; quod confirmari potest per zelum 
quem habet, et generatim ostendit societas erga ani- 
mas externorum, quanto magis erga domesticos suos. 

6. Deind^ hujusmodi magnates aut prselati, apud 
quos dimissi aliquid auctoritatis aut fidei sibi concili- 
are caeperint, omni genere beneficiorum a societate 
prseveniendi sunt, ac obstringendi ; explicandum illis 
quomodd bonum commune unius religionis tam Cele- 
bris, quam utilis ecclesiae, praeponderare debeat bono 
privato qualiscumque personam ; quod si affectus erga 



SECHET IXSTiiUCTlOKS OF THE JESUITS. 101 

place, that the Society expels none without weighty 
causes ; spewing out, as the sea, all its dead carcasses, 
&c., and let such causes also be artfully insinuated, 
which have occasioned us any ill-will, that their eject- 
ment may appear to the world with a more commend- 
able grace. 

III. In private exhortations, at people's houses, let 
these be represented as persons very turbulent, and 
continually importuning a re-admission into the 
Society. And let their sad fate be industriously 
aggravated, who, after exclusion, have happened to 
come to an untimely or miserable end. 

IV. Whatever accusations these bring against us, 
let them be oppugned by the authority of some grave 
members, who must every where declare that the 
Society dismisses none but upon very good reasons, 
nor ever lops off members that are sound ; this must 
be confirmed by the zeal and concern we show for the 
souls of all strangers in general : how much greater 
must it therefore be for those who are members of 
our order ? 

V. In the next place, let the Society, by all man- 
ner of obligations, endeavor to prevail upon the 
noblemen and prelates with whom the dismissed 
may have any credit or authority, to deny them their 
countenance ; and let it be shown that the common 
good of an order, which is as famous as it is useful 
to the church, should always be preferred to the 
private advantage of any particular person whatso- 
ever ; and should they still retain an affection for 



102 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

dimissos perseveret, juvabit cavisas dimissionis expo- 
nere, et exaggerare etiam quae non adeo certa sunt, 
modo per probabilem consequentiam deducantur. 

6. Omni modo prsecavendum erit, ne prsesertim ii, 
qui sua sponte societatem deseruerunt, promoveantnr 
ad aliqua officia aut dignitates ecclesise, nisi se sua- 
que omnia societati submiserint et addixerint, ita ut 
omnibus constare possit quod a societate oimnino de- 
pendere velint. 

7. Procuretur tempori ut ab exercitio fonctionum 
celebrium in ecclesia, ut sunt conciones, confessiones, 
evulgationes liborum, etc., quantum fieri potest sint 
remoti, ne affectum et plausum vulgi sibi concilient. 
Eo fine diligentissime in vitam ac mores illorum erit 
inquirendum, nee non in sodalitia, occupationes, etc., 
et intentiones dimissi. Quocir a eificiendum erit, ut 
cum aliquo ^ familia ilia, quam dimissi incolunt, nos- 
tri peculiarem correspondentiam habeant. Quampri- 
miim autem quidpiam minus laudabile, aut censura 
dignum deprehensum fuerit, per personas inferioris 
ordinis nobis addictas in vulgus dispergatur, deindd 
magnates vel praelatos, qui dimissos fovent, futurse 
infamise indiciis teneantur. Quod si nihil commit- 
tant repreliensione dignum, et laudabiliter se gerant, 
extenuentur argutis propositionibus, ambiguisque 



SECKET INSTKUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 103 

them, it will then be of importance to lay open the 
causes of their expulsion, and even to aggravate them 
with those we have no positive proof of, so they can 
but be deduced by probable consequence. 

VI. Let all possible care be taken to hinder the pro- 
motion of such to offices and preferments in the church, 
Avho of their own accord have relinquished the Socie- 
ty ; unless they submit themselves, and all they have 
in the world, to our disposal, in such a manner that it 
may plainly appear to every one they are willing to 
have their whole dependence on us. 

VII. Let them (as far as is possible) be timely 
removed from the exercise of honorable functions in 
the church, such as preaching, confessing, and pub- 
lishing of books, &c., lest by these means they attract 
the affection and applause of the people. The strict- 
est inquiries must therefore be made into their lives, 
manners, and conversations, what they apply them- 
selves to, and their very intentions : to which end, 
matters must be so managed, that we may keep up a 
good correspondence with 'some of the family in which 
they live, and the minute the least trip be discovered, 
or anything deserving censure, let it be industriously 
spread abroad in the world by some of the lower rank 
of people, who are our friends, that so the noblemen 
or prelates may be restrained from showing them any 
farther countenance, for fear of the scandal it may 
bring upon themselves ; and should they behave so as 
to leave us no room to &id fault, let their virtues 
and laudable actions be depreciated by subtile insin- 



104 SECiiETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

verbis eorum virtutes, operaque quae commendantur, 
donee sestimatio et fides quse antea illis adhibebatur, 
immimiatur ; societatis enim plane interest, dimissos 
et praesertim eos, qui earn sua sponte deseruerunt, 
prorsus supprimi. 

8. Infortunia et eventus sinistri, qui illis accidunt, 
quamprimum divulgandi sunt, imploratis tamen prec- 
ibus personarum piarum, ut non credantur nostri ex- 
passione procedere ; domi vero omnibus modis exag- 
gerentur, ut alii contineantur. 



CAPUT XII. 

Quinam conservari ac foveri in Bocietate debeant. 

1. Primum locum tenere debent strenui operarii, 
qui, scilicet, non minus temporale quam spirituale 
societatis bonum promo vent, quales sunt plerumque 
confessarii principum ac magnatum, viduarum et de- 
votarum opulentarum, concionatores et professores, 
et quicumque horum secretorum sunt conscii. 

2. Corruentes viribus et defecti setate, secundum 
quod talenta sua pro bono societatis temporali im- 



SECRET INSTUCTIOXS OF THE JESUITS. 105 

nation and donbtfnl expressions ; till the esteem and 
credit they had formerly acquired be lessened in the 
opinion of the world ; for it is altogether for the 
interest of the Society, that the dismissed, especially 
such as of their own accord desert it, should be 
entirely kept under. 

VIII. Let the misfortunes, and unlucky accidents 
which happen to them, be immediately published; 
but with entreaties for the prayers of good christ- 
ians, that the world may not think we are 
hurried away by passion ; but, among our members, 
let these things, by all means, be represented in the 
blackest colors, that the rest maj^ be the better 
secured. 



CHAPTER XII. 

Who shall he kept^ and favored in the Society. 

I. Let diligent laborers, whose industry is equally 
bent on promoting the temporal, as the spiritual in- 
terest of the Society, be always held in the greatest 
esteem ; of which sort are (generally speaking) 
confessors of princes and noblemen, of widows and 
rich female devotees, preachers, professors, and who- 
ever are privy to these secret instructions. 

II. The impaired in strength, and decrepid with age, 
must be next considered, according as they have em- 



106 S^CliETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

penclerunt, adeo lit habeatur decens ratio messis pree- 
teritse ; prseterquam quod adhuc apta instrumeiita 
sint ad deferendos superioribus defectus ordinarios 
quos in reliquis domesticis, cum perpetuo domi sint 
animadvertunt. 



3. Dimittendi illi nnnquam erunt quantum fieri 
poterit, ne societas male audiat. 

4. Prse terea, fovendi quicumque ingenio, nobili- 
tate, aut divitiis excellunt, praesertim si amicos et 
consanguineos societati addictos habeant et potentes, 
et reverb ipsi sincere affectu erga societatem sint, se- 
cundum explicationem supra datam. Mittendi illi 
Romam, vel ad universitates celebriores ut studeant ; 
si autem in provincia studuerint, peculiari affectu et 
favore professorum sunt promovendi. Quoadusque 
cessionem bonorum suorum fecerint societati, nihil 
illis denegetur, sed postquam illam fecerunt, mortifi-' 
centur, ut cseteri, sempert amen respectu aliquo hab- 
ito ad praeterita. 

6. Erit etiam ratio peculiaris eorum apud superio- 
res, qui selectos aliquos juvenes ad societatem allexe- 
rint quando quidem affectum suum erga societatem 
non partim testa ti sunt; sed quamdiu illi nondtim 
professi sunt, videndum ne nimium illis indulgeatur, 
ne forte fortun&, quos ad societatem adduxerunt, re- 
ducant. 



SECKET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 107 

ployed their several talents for the temporal advan- 
tage of the Society ; that a grateful regard may be 
shown to their past labors, and because they may also 
(remaining always at home) be made use of, to pry 
into the actions of the other domestics, and commun-^ 
icate to the superiors a faithful account of whatever 
miscarriages they shall be guilty of. 

III. These should scarce ever be dismissed, least 
we bring an ill reputation upon the Society. 

IV. Besides these, let all be caressed who are dis- 
tinguished either for their parts, nobility or riches, 
especially if they have friends or relations who are 
firm to our interests, possessed of power, and have 
given convincing proofs of a sincere affection towards 
us, according to the method ^before laid down. Let 
these be sent to Rome^ or some other famous universi- 
ties, to prosecute their studies ; but if their inclina- 
tions lead them to do this in the province, let them 
be encouraged by the particular affection and favor of 
the professors, till they have surrendered to us their 
effects let nothing be denyed them ; but when once 
we have got them to do this, oblige them to mortifica- 
tion, like the rest, but not without having a little 
regard to their past beneficence. 

V. Let the superiors also show a particular respect 
to such as have allured any clever youths into the 
Society ; since this is no trifling testimony of their 
affection for us : but till these are professed, care 
must be taken not to give those too great indulgence, 
for fear they should carry away again those very per- 
sons they brought to us. 



108 SECEETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

CAPUT XIIL 

Be deleetu juvenum in societatem admittendorum et 

modo retinendi. 

1. Summa prudentia contendendum est, ut diligan- 
tur juveiies iiigenio bono, forma non contemnenda, 
genere nobiles, ant qnod minimnm hornm aliqno ex- 
cellentes. 

2. Ut facilins ad institntnm nostrum pertrahantur, 
pecnliari affectn qnamditi student a praefectis schola- 
rum et magistris sunt praeveniendi ; extra tempora 
scholse ab iisdem sunt instruendi, quam gratum Deo 
sit, si quis illi se, et sua omnia, praesertim in socie- 
tate filii sui, consecret. 

3. Ducantur occasione data per collegium et hor- 
tum, imo aliquando etiam ad villas, et cum nostris ver- 
sentur tempore recreationum, et paulatim familiares 
fiant, cavendo tamen ne familiaritas pariat contemp- 
tum. 

4. Non permittantur castigari, et in ordinem redigi 
a praeceptoribus cum aliis discipulis. 

5. Munusculis ac privilegiis, variis, aetati illorum 
conformibus, divinciendi sunt, et maxime coUoquiis 
spiritualibus sunt animandi. 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OE THE JESUITS. 109 

CHAPTER XIII. 

How to pick out young men to he admitted into the 
Society^ and in what manner to retain them. 

I. Let us endeavor, with the utmost prudence, to 
pick out young men, of a good genius, an agreeable 
personage, and noble family, or at least such as excel 
in some one of these. 

II. That they may, with greater ease, be drawn to 
us, let the masters who have the care of their in- 
struction, both during, and also after school-time, by 
a particular mildness, preposses them in our favor, 
and insinuate how acceptable an offering it is to the 
Almighty, when any one dedicates himself, and all 
that he has, to him; especially in the Society of 
his Son. 

III. At proper opportunities, let them be enter- 
tained in our colleges and gardens, and sometimes at 
our country-seats ; let them accompany our members 
at times of recreation, and by little and little be 
drawn into a familiarity; but, however, with such 
proper cautions as may prevent its breeding in them 
contempt. 

IV. Let not their masters be allowed to chastise, 
nor keep them in subjection as the other scholars. 

V. Let them be allured, by little presents, and 
indulgence of liberties agreeable to their age ; and, 
above all, let their affections be warmed with spiritual 
discourses. 



110 SECRET A MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

6. Inculcetur illis hsec fieri dispositione divinS-, 
tanquam ad societatem electis prse tot aliis idem 
gymnasium frequentantibus. 

7. Aliis occasionibus, praesertim exhortationibus, 
terrendi sunt minis damnationis seternae, nis divinae 
vocationi obtemperent. 

8. Si societatem ingredi constanter petant, differa- 
tur illorum admissio, qu4mdiu constantes manent; 
quod si mutabiles appareant, quamprimtim et omni- 
bus modis foveantur. 



9. Admoneantur efficaciter ne uUi familiari suo et 
ne quidem parentibus vocationem suam aperiant, 
priusquam admissi sint. Quod si deinde aliqua illos 
tentatio resiliendi superveniat, in integro tum ipsi, 
tum societas erit, et si ilia superata fuerit, semper 
erit occasio illos rememoratione ejusdem postea ani- 
mandi si tempore novitiatus, aut post emissa vota 
^implicia obveniat. 

10. Quia vero maxima difficultas est in alliciendis 
magnatum, nobilium senatorum filiis, quandiu apud 
parentes sunt, qui illos, ad succedendum illorum of- 



SECKET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. Ill 

VI. Let it be inculcated, that their being chosen 
out of such a number, rather than any of their fellow- 
coUegiates, is a most pregnant instance of divine 
appointment. 

VII. On other occasions, but especially in ex- 
hortations, let them be terrified with denunciations 
of eternal punishment, unless they accept of the 
heavenly invitation. 

VIII. The more earnestly they desire admission 
into our Society, the longer let the grant of such favor 
be deferred, provided at the same time they seem 
stedfast in their resolution ; but if their minds appear 
to be wavering, let all proper methods be used for the 
immediate firing of them. 

IX. Let them be strictly cautioned not to make the 
least discovery of their call to any intimate friends, 
not even so much as to their parents, before they are 
become one of us : that if afterwards any temptation 
to fall off, arises, both they and the Society will be 
wholly at their liberties ; and should we get the bet- 
ter of such inclinations, it will always be a handle, 
from their past irresolution, to stir them up to a 
firmer perseverance for the future, if this happens 
while they are novices, or after they have made but 
simple vows. 

X. But since the greatest difficulty occurs in 
drawing in the sons of noblemen, persons of distinc- 
tion, and senators, while they are under the wing of 
their parents, who endeavor to train them up to sue- 



112 SECEETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

ficiis educant, persuadendum illis per amicos potitis 
quam per personas societatis, ut illos in aliis pro- 
vinciis, et remotis universitatibus coUocent, in quibus 
nostri decent, prsemissis* instructionibus ad professo- 
res de qualitate et conditionibus illorum, ut affectum 
illorum, societati facilitis et certitis concilient. 

11. Quando ad aeta'tem aliquo modo maturam per- 
venerint, inducendi erunt ad facienda aliqua exer- 
citia spiritualia, quae in Germanis et Polonis ssepe bo- 
num successum habuerunt. 

12. Perturbationibus et afflictionibus illorum oc- 
currendum erit, pro qualitate et conditione uniuscu- 
jusque adhibitis demonstrationibus, et exhortotioni- 
bus privatis de malo successu divitiarum, et bono vo- 
cationis non contemnendo sub poena infernalis. 

13. Apud parentes ut facilitis filiorum suorum de- 
siderio in societatem ingrediendi condescendant, os- 
tendatur excellentio instituti societatis, prse aliis re- 
ligionibus, sanctitatis, et doctrinse patrum nostrorum, 
sestimatio Integra apud omnes, honor et applausus 
universalis, qui societatis a summis et a minimis de- 
fertur ; et recenseatur numerus principum et niagna- 
tum, qui magno animi sui solatio in hac societate 



SECRET INSTUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 113 

ceed in their employments ; let our friends, rather 
than members, persuade them to send their children 
into other provinces, and remote universities, wherein 
some of our order are tutors ; private instructions, 
concerning their quality and condition, being first 
transmitted, that they may be the better enabled, by 
touching upon right strings, to secure their affection 
to the Society. 

XI. When they are more advanced in age, let 
them be enticed to the performance of some spiritual 
exercises, this method having been attended 
with very good success among the Grermans and 
Polanders. 

XII. In troubles and afflictions we must adminis- 
ter comfort to every one according to their several 
qualities and conditions, by laying before them how 
often riches are a curse to the possessors, and privately 
exhort them not to contemn the call of God, the 
doing which exposes the offender to no less a penalty 
than that of hell-fire. 

XIII. That parents may more readily condescend 
to their sons' desires of becoming members of our 
Society, it will be highly expedient to extol the ex- 
cellence of its institutions, in comparison of that of 
all other orders ; the sanctity and learning of our 
brethren, the unspotted character they maintain 
among all, and the universal honor and applause they 
meet with every where, from persons of all qualities 
and degrees. Let an enumeration be made of the 
princes and noblemen, who, to the great comfort of 



114 SECKETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

Jesu vixerunt, et mortui sunt, et tiam nunc vivunt. 
Ostendaturquam gratum Deo sit quod juvenes sese 
illi mancipent, prsesertim in societate filii sui, et 
quam bonum sit viro, cum portaverit jugum Domini 
ab adolescentia sua. Quod si de teneritudine et mi- 
nus perfecta setate disceptetur, declaretur facilitas 
instituti nostri quod prseter trium votorum observati- 
onem, nihil aliud quod valde molestum sit continet, 
et quod valde spectandum est, nuUam regulam obli- 
gare, ne quidem sub peccato veniali. 



CAPUT XTV. 

De casibus reservatis^ et causa dimittendi e Societate, 

1. Praeter casus expressos in constitutionibus, a 
quibus solus superior aut confessarius ordinarius, 
cum ejus licentia, absolvere poterit, sunt sodomia, 
moUities, fornicatio, adulterium, stuprum, tactus im- 
pudicus maris aut feminae, preeterea, si quis quacum- 
que zeli causa aut occasione quomodolibet quidquam 
grave moliatur contra societatem, ej usque lionorem 
aut utilitatem, quae etiam omiies sunt justse causae 
dimissionis. 



SECRET t^rSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 115 

their souls, lived in this Society of Jesus^ and are 
dead, and yet live. Let us show that nothing is 
more pleasing to God, than that young men should 
devote themselves entirely to him, especially as 
companions in the Society of his Son ; and that it 
is one of the greatest felicities, for a man, from his 
youth, to bear the yoke of the Lord: but if any 
difficulties be started, by reason of the tenderness of 
their age, let the easiness of our institution be ex- 
plained, which contains nothing in it very difficult to 
be observed, except the keeping of three vows ; and 
(which is very remarkable) not any one rule, whose 
non-observance would be the commission even of a 
venial sin. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

Of reserved cases^ and causes of dismission from the 

Society. 

m 

I. Besides the cases already mentioned in our 
statutes, in which the superior only, or the ordinary 
confessor, by his authority, has power to absolve ; 
there are others, namely, sodomy, effeminacy, forni- 
cation, adultery, uncleanness, unseemly commerce 
with man or woman; the commission also of any 
heinous offence against the Society, its honor or in- 
terest, whether through zeal or otherwise ; all which 
also are just causes of expulsion. 



116 SECHETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

2. Quod si quis aliquid hujusmodi confiteatur sac- 
ramentaliter, non prius absolvatur, quam promiserit 
se extra confessionem superiori manifestaturum per 
se, vel per coiifessarium ; turn superior concludet, 
pro bono communi societatis, quod melius videbitur ; 
et si certa spes sit criminis occultandi, conformi poen- 
itentia plectendus erit, sin vero quamprimum dimit- 
tendus ; caverit sibi iterim confessarius dicere poeni- 
tenti ilium periclitari de demissione. 

3. Si quis ex nostris confessariis audiverit ab ali- 
qu& persona externa, quod cum aliquo e societate 
rem turpem commiserit, non eam prius absolvat, 
quam extra confessionem aperuerit nomen illius cum 
quo peccavit; quod si dixerit, adliuc non absolvatur, 
nisi jurejurando se obstrinxerit se nunquam id ulli 
mortalium revelaturum sine consensu societatis. 

4. Si duo ex nostris carnaliter peccaverint, si prior 
manifestaverit, in societate retineatur, alter dimitta- 
tur ; sed deind^ si qui detinetur it& mortificetur et 
undequaque affligatur, ut prse taedio et impatientia 
occasionem det dimissioni, quae statim arripiatur. 



5. Poterit etiam societa, cum sit corpus nobile et 
prsestans in ecclesia, a se prsescindere hujusmodi per- 
sonas, quae ad instituti nostri executionem minus 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 117 

II. But if any one at the sacrament confess sins of 
this kind, till promise be made, out of confession to 
discover them to the superior, either himself, or by 
his confessor, let not absolution be given him; and 
then let the superior take such resolutions as shall 
tend most to the common good of the Society, but if 
there be hopes of smothering the crime, let it then be 
punished with an adequate penance : but if not, let 
him, as soon as possible, be expelled; let the confessor 
however, be always very cautious not to inform the 
penitent that he is in danger of it. 

III. If it come to the ear of any of our confessors, 
that a strange woman has had to do with a member 
of the Society; let her not be absolved before 
she has discovered his name, out of confession; 
and even when this is done, let her by no means re- 
ceive absolution, till she has further obliged herself, 
by an oath, never to reveal it to any one living, with- 
out our consent. 

IV. If two of our members have carnally sinned, 
let the fh-st that discovers it be retained, and the 
other expelled : but let him that stays with us be 
mortified and plagued with such intolerable discipline, 
that we may drive him to commission of some fresh 
offence which will afford a good handle for spewing 
him out ; and the fhst time it offers, be sure to lay 
hold on it. 

V. As the Society is a body, both noble and excel- 
lent in the church, it has authority to lop off such 
members, who, though at their entrance they might 



118 SECRET A MONITA SOCIETATIS JEStJ. 

idonese videbuntur, quamvis initio satisfecerint, et 
facile invenietur occasio ; si, nemp^ continuo vexen- 
tur, et omnia fiant contra illorum inclinationem, sub- 
jiciantur superioribus tetricis, arceantur & studiis ac 
functionibus honorificentioribus, etc., donee obmur- 
murent. 

6. Retinendi etiam nuUatentis sunt, qui aut super- 
ioribus palam insurgunt, aut paldm aut cldm apud 
socios, ac potissimum externos conqueruntur ; item 
qui apud domesticos vel externos modum agendi so- 
cietatis, quoad acquisitionem aut administrationem 
bonorum temporalium condemnant, yel alias rationes 
agendi, verbi gratia, conculcandi ac supprimendi 
male affectos erga societatem, vel dimissos, etc., qui 
Venotcs, Francos, aut alios & quibus societas pulsa, 
et gravia damna passa est, in coUoquiis ferunt aut 
defendunt. 

7. Ante dimisssionem, acerrim^ agitandi sunt ii 
qui demittentur, amovendi d consuetis officiis, et 
modo huic, modo illi applicandi, interim quantum- 
cumque bene prsestiterint, reprehendendi, eoque tit- 
ulo alteri applicandi ; pro leviori culp& quam forte 
commiserint graves poense assignentur, confundantur 
publice usque ad impatientiam, tandemque tanqu4in 
aliis parniciosi dimittantur ; ad hoc autem locus, de 
quo minime opinantur, eligatur. 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 119 

seem fit for our purpose, should afterwards prove 
unqualified for the execution of our designs. To 
effect this, a method may easily be found, to wit, by 
continually using them hardly, and doing everything 
contrary to their inclinations ; by subjecting them to 
severe superiors ; and by forcing them from the more 
honorable studies and functions, till they begin to 
murmur against such usage. 

VI. Nor let such by any means be retained as 
either openly oppose their superiors, or, in public 
or private, make complaints against them to their 
fellow-members, but especially to strangers ; or such 
as condemn, to their associates, or strangers, the 
conduct of the Society in the amassing or manage- 
ment of temporal goods, or any other of our methods 
of proceeding ; as for instance, our suppressing, and 
keeping under all either disaffected to, or expelled 
from our order, &c., or that admit in conversation, or 
defend the Venetians^ French^ or others, who by 
hindering us from getting a footing among them, 
have done the Society intolerable damages. 

VII. Before the time of their dismission, let them 
be treated with the utmost severity, removed from 
their usual duties, and hurried about from one to 
another ; and though they do whatever you task them, 
yet always find fault, and under this pretence remove 
them to some other. For the slightest offence,, 
though inadvertently committed, be sure you subject 
them to a heavy punishment ; in public, constantly 
abash them, till they are able no longer to bear it, 



120 SECHETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 



8. Si de aliquo nostrorum spes certa sit de obti- 
nendo episcopatu, aut alia dignitate ecclesiastica, 
praeter consueta societatis vota, cogatur alterum emit- 
tere, quod semper bene de instituto societatis sensu- 
rus sit, ac dicturus, neque alio confessario qn4m qui 
de societate sit ; utetur, quin imo se in nuUis rebus 
alicujus momenti quidquam dispositurum, nisi audito 
judicio societatis. Quod quia cardinalis Toletus non 
obseryavit, societas a sancta sede impetravit ut post- 
hac nuUus maranus, perfidse judaice aut maliometicse 
hseres admittatur, qui tale votum prsestare noluerit, 
et tanqu4m acerrimus societatis hostis quantumcum- 
que Celebris esset, dimittatur. 



CAPUT XV. 

Quomodo agendum cum monialihus^ et devotariis. 

1. Caveant valde confessarii et concionatores offen- 
dere moniales, aut illis dare occasionem tentationis 
contra vocationem ; sed contrd, affectu potissimum 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 121 

and then turn them out, as persons whose examples 
may be pernicious to others ; and for this purpose, 
choose such place and opportunity, as they never in 
the least thought of. 

VIII. If any of our order has certain expectations 
of a bishoprick, or other ecclesiastical preferment, 
let him, beside the usual vows of the Society, be 
obliged to make another ; namely. That he will 
always entertain a favorable opinion, and on all 
occasions speak honorably of us ; that he will never 
confess, but to one of our members, nor determine, 
in any affair of moment, without first consulting the 
judgment of the Society: for non-observance of 
which by cardinal Tolet^ our order obtained from the 
holy see, that no Maran (descended from the perfidi- 
ous race of Jews and Mahometans^) who will not 
oblige himself to perform such a vow, should never, 
for the future, be admitted among us ; but immedi- 
ately expelled as a most virulent enemy, though a 
person of ever so great fame and reputation. 



CHAPTER XV. 

Of our conduct towards nuns and female devotees. 

I. Let the confessors and preachers be very cau- 
tious of offending nuns, or of leading them into any 
even the least temptation contrary to their calling ; 



122 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESIT. 

superiorum sibi conciliato, procurent confessiones 
saltern extraordiarias excipere, et conciones apud eas 
facere, si gratitudinem illarum yiceissim experiantur; 
multum enim juvare societatem possnnt nobiles, prse- 
sertim ac divites abbatise, turn per se, turn per paren- 
tes ac amicos suos, adeo ut mediante notitia primari- 
orum monasteriorum paulatim in notitiam et amicit- 
ias totius fese civitatis societas venire possit. 



2. Vitandum tamen ex altera parte devotabus nos- 
tris, ne monasteria f eminarnm frequentent, ne vi- 
dendi ratio ilia ipsis magis arrideat, et sic societas ex- 
pectatione omnium bonorum, quae possident, frustre- 
tur. Inducantur ver6 ad prsestandum votum castita- 
tis et obedientiae in manibus confessarii sui, ostenda- 
turque illam vivendi rationem esse conformem primi- 
tivse ecclesiae moribus, utpot^ lucentem in domo, et 
non sub modi sine proximi sedificatione ac fructu ani- 
marum ; praeterqudm qiiod exemplo viduarum evan- 
gelicarum Christo in sociis suis benefaciant de sub- 
stantia sua : denique omnia quae in prse judicium 
claustralis vitie sunt, exponantur, eique applicent, 
nujusmodi instructiones illis sub secreti sigillo com- 
municent, ne forte ad aures religiosorum perveniant. 



SfiCREd? INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 123 

but, on the other hand, having by all means gained 
the affection of the governesses, let them manage so 
as at least to take their extraordinary confessions, 
and preach to them, if they find them forward in 
making grateful returns : for persons descended from 
noble families, especially rich abbesses, are capable of 
being very serviceable to us, either through their 
own, or the interest of their parents and friends ; so 
that by currying favor with the principal monasteries, 
the Society may by degrees get an acquaintance, and 
work themselves into the friendship of almost the 
whole city. 

IT. Yet, on the other side, let our female devotees 
be forbidden to frequent nunneries, lest they should 
be most taken with that kind of life, and we thereby 
be baulked in our expectations of what they have. 
But let them be induced to the performance of their 
vow of chastity and obedience, by the care of their 
confessor, by his showing them that such method 
of living is conformable to the purity of the primi- 
tive church, being as a candle which diffuses its 
light through the whole house, and not hid under a 
bushel, and consequently contributing nothing to the 
edification of our neighbor, or the good of souls; and, 
like the good widows in the gospel, that they should 
communicate of their substance to Christ, by their 
bounty to his companions. Lastly, let every argu- 
ment be applied which may create in them an aver- 
sion to a recluse life ; but let all these instructions 
be delivered to them under the strictest obligations 



124 SECRET A MONITA SOCIETATIS J^SV. 



CAPUT XVL 

De contemptu divitiarum paldm proe seferendo, 

1. Ne sseculares nobis adscribant nimium affectum 
erga divitias, juvabit nonnunqudm recusare eleemos- 
ynas minoris momenti, quae pro officiis a societate 
prsestitis offeruntur, quanquam ab iis qui omnino no- 
bis sunt addicti, etiam minimas quascumque accep- 
tare conveniat, ne avaritiae arguamur, si tanttim dona 
insigniora admittamus. 

2. Negandae erunt sepulturae personis vilibus in 
templis nostris, quamvis valde addicti fuerint socie- 
tati, ne videamur pluralitate mortuorum divitias ve- 
nari, et constet de beneficiis quae 4 mortuo recipimus. 

3. Cum viduis aliisque personis, quae societati ple- 
raque sua dederunt, agendum erit valde resolute et 
acrius caeteris paribus, qudm cum aliis, ne videamur 
propter considerationem bonorum temporalium illis 



SECKET INSTIIUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 125 

to secrecy, lest other orders should happen to hear 
of them. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

In what manner w^ must outwardly feign a contempt 

of riches. 

I. Lest the seculars should represent us as too 
much hankering after riches, it will be proper now 
and then to refuse such small and trifling alms as 
are offered for performance of pious offices ; though 
of such as are thoroughly attached to our interest, 
we must readily accept whatever they give us, lest 
we bring upon ourselves the imputation of covetous- 
ness for our swallowing nothing but presents of 
value. 

II. Let burial in our churches be denied to persons 
of a base character, although, in their life-times, they 
have been ever so much our friends, lest the world 
should surmise that we hunt after riches by the num- 
bers of the deceased, and come to a knowledge of 
what we gain by them. 

III. Let widows and others who have given us 
almost all they possessed, (though then they are on 
equal footing with others,") be treated with much 
more rigor ; lest people should imagine their greater 
indulgence proceeds from our hopes of secular advau- 



126 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 

favere plus quam cseteris. Imo idem observari con- 
venit respectu illorum qui in societate sunt, sed post- 
quam bonorum suorum cessionem et resignationem 
in favorem societatis f ecerint ; et si necesse sit, a so- 
cietate dimittantur, sed omni cum discretione, ut sal- 
tem partem eorum quse societati dederunt ei relin- 
quant, aut morientes testamento legent. 



CAPUT XVII. 
De mediis promovendi societatem. 

1. In primis in hoc incumbant omnes, ut etiam in 
rebus parvi momenti untim semper sentiant et saltem 
exteritis dicant ; sic enim quantumcumque res mundi 
hujus turbidae fuerint, societas semper necessario au- 
gebitu.r et confirmabitur. 

2. Sic omnes lucere nitantur doctrin4 et exemplius, 
ut reliqui religiosi, prsesertim ii qui de clero sunt, 
pastores, etc., superentur, tandemque vulgus omnia a 
nostris tantum prsestari optet; quin im6 hoc palam 
dicatur, non requiri in pastoribus doctrinam tantam, 
i^odo suo munere bene fungantut, consilio enim so- 
cietatem juvare posse, quae idcirco studia summopere 
commendata habet. 



SECRET INSTKUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 127 

tages. The same method should be also observed 
with such as are in the Society, but this must be 
after they have entirely given up all into our hands ; 
and if ever after there be a necessity for it, let them 
be dismissed ; but this must be done with such dis- 
cretion, that they may be induced to leave to the 
order, part at least, of what they formerly gave us, 
or bequeath it by will, at the time of their death. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

^Of the methods of advancing the Society. 

I. Let our members chiefly endeavor at this, always 
to act with humanity, even in things of trifling mo- 
ment ; or at least to have the outward appearance of 
doing so ; for by this means, whatever confusions 
may arise in the world, the Society of necessity will 
always increase and maintain its ground. 

II. Let all earnestly endeavor so to shine in their 
learning and good example, that other religious? 
especially those of the clergy, &c., may be eclipsed, 
and the common people at length drawn in to request 
us to discharge every office. And let it be also pub- 
licly declared, that a very great fund of learning i.s 
not so absolutely necessary in pastors, provided in all 
other respects they discharge their duty as the}' 
ought; for the Society can assist with advice on 



128 SECKETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU, 



3. Fovendi reges ac principes h4c doctrina, quod 
fides catholica in presenti statu persistere nequeat 
sine politismo, sed ad hoc magn4 opus discretione ; 
hac ratione nostri grati erunt magnatibus, et ad inti- 
miora consilia adhibebuntur. 



4. Foveri poterunt novis lectissimis et certissimis 
undequaque transcriptis. 

5. Neque partim conferet si magnatum et princi- 
pum dissensiones caute ac secreto nutriantur, etiam 
cum mutua virium infractione. Qu6d si animadver- 
teretur verisimiliter conciliandos, societas quampri- 
mum illos pacificare contendet, ne aliunde prsevenia- 
tur. 

6. Ingeneranda omnibus modis, praesertim vulgo 
et magnatibus, opinio de societatis erectione per sin- 
gularem providentiam divinam, juxta prophetias Joa- 
chimi abbatis, ad hoc ut ecclesia depressa ad haereti- 
cis elevetur. 



7. Turn magnatum et episcoporum gratia obtentia, 
occupandi pastoratus et canonicatus, ad reformatio- 



SECRET INSTUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 129 

emergencies, for which reason it has good offices of 
this sort in a particular esteem. 

III. Let kings and princes be kept up in this prin- 
ciple, that the Catholic faith, as matters now stand, 
cannot subsist without the civil power, which how- 
ever must be managed with the greatest discretion. 
By this means our members will work themselves 
into the favor of persons in the highest post of gov- 
ernment, and consequently be admitted into their 
most secret councils. 

IV. It will be also proper to entertain their curios- 
ity with the newest, choicest, and most genuine 
transcripts that can be purchased from all places. 

V. Nor will it contribute a little to our advantage, 
if, with caution and secrecy, we foment and heighten 
the animosities that arise among princes and great 
men, even to such a degree that they may weaken 
each other. But if there appear any likelihood of 
reconciliation, then as soon as possible let us endeavor 
to be the mediators, lest others prevent us. 

VI. The nobility and populace must, by all 
methods, be persuaded into a belief that the Society 
was instituted by the particular direction of divine 
providence, according to the prophecies of the abbot 
Jacliim^ that by this means the church, though de- 
pressed by the attemps of heretics, may be raised 
again to its primitive lustre. 

VII. The favor of the nobility and superior clergy, 
once got, our next aim must be to draw all cures and 



130 " SECRETA MONITA SOGIETATIS JESU. 

nem cleri exactiorem, qui olim sub certa regula cum 
episcopis suis vivebant, et ad perfectionem tende- 
bant; ac tandem ad abbatias et prselaturas aspiran- 
dum, quas attenta ignavia ac stupiditate mmiacho- 
rum, ubi vacaverint, non erit difficile assequi ; etenim 
ex re ecclesiae omnino foret, si omnes episcopatus a 
societate tenerentur, imo sedes apostolica possidere- 
tur ; prsesertim si pontif ex bonorum omnium princeps 
temporalis fieret, quare omni ratione temporalia so- 
cietatis, prudenter tamen et secreto paulatim exten- 
denda, neque dubium quin tunc aurea saecula et pax 
continua ac universalis, et consequenter benedictio 
divina ecclesiam comitaretur. 



8. Quod si spes non affulgeat ad lisec perveniendi, 
cum equidem necesse sit ut vendiant scandala, pro- 
tempore invertendus erit status politicus, et incitandi 
principes nostris familiariter utentes ad bella mutua 
et importuna; ut sic ubique societas imploretur ac 
impendatur reconciliationi publicse, ut communis boni 
auctrix, et primariis beneficiis et dignitatibus ecclesi- 
asticis compensetur. 



SECRET INSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS. 131 

canonships into our possession, for the more complete 
reformation of the clergy, who heretofore lived under 
certain regulation of their bishops, and made con- 
siderable advances towards perfection. And lastly, 
let us aspire to abbacies and bishroprics, the obtaining 
which, when vacancies happen, will very easily be 
effected, considering the supineness and stupidity of 
the monks ; for it w^ould entirely tend to the benefit 
of the church, that all bishroprics, and even the 
apostolical see, should be hooked into our hands, 
especially should his holiness ever become a temporal 
prince over all. Wherefore, let no methods be un- 
tried, with cunning and privacy, by degrees, to increase 
the worldly interests of the Society, and then, no 
doubt, a golden age will go hand in hand with an 
universal and lasting peace, and the divine blessing 
of consequence attend the catholic church. 



VIII. But if our hopes in this should be blasted, 
and since offences of necessity will come, our politi- 
cal schemes must be cunningly varied, according to 
the different posture of the times: and princes, our 
intimates, whom we can influence to follow our coun- 
cils, must be pushed on to embroil themselves in 
vigorous wars one with another, to the end, our So- 
ciety (as promoters of the universal good of the 
world,) may on all hands be solicited to contribute 
its assistance, and always employed in being media- 
tors of public dissensions : by this means the chief 
benefices and preferments in the church will, of 



132 SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU. 



9. Denique hoc saltern conabitur societas efficere 
acquisita principum gratia et auctoritate, ut ab iis a 
quibus non amatur, saltern timeatur. 



i 



SECRET INSTKUOTIONS'OJj^ THE JESUITS. 133 

course, be given to us by way of compensation for 
our services. 

IX. Finally, the Society must endeavor to effect 
this at least, that having got the favor and authority 
of princes, those who do not love them at least fear 
them. 



END OF SECRET IKSTRUCTIONS. 



Morality of the Jesuits. 



"A Christian may deliberately discard his christian 
character, and act as other men, in those things 
which are not properly christian ! " — Lemoyne^ Prop. 
1, page 36. 

" By the command of God, it is lawful to murder 
the innocent, to rob, and to commit all lewdness, be- 
cause he is Lord of life, and death, and all things ; 
and thus to fulfil his mandate is our duty ! " — Ala- 
gona^ Thom. Aquin. Sum. Theol. Compend. Quest. 
94, p. 280. " Ex mandato Dei licet occidere, &c." 

" All theologians and ecclesiastical lawyers affirm, 
that every Christian government, as soon as they 
openly abandon the Roman faith, instantly are de- 
graded from all power and dignity, by human and di- 
vine right ; all their subjects are absolved from the 
oath of fidelity and obedience which they have taken : 
and they may and ought, if they have the power, to 
drive such a government from every Christian state, 
as an apostate, heretic, and deserter from Jesus 
Christ, and a declared enemy to their republic. This 
certain and indubitable decision of all the most 
leaned men is perfectly conformed to Apostolic doc- 
trine ! " High Treason. — Philopater^ Respons. ad 
Edict, Sec. 2, Num. 157, 158, page 166. 

'' It is lawful to kill an accuser whose testimony 
may jeopard your life and honor." — Escobar^ Thec- 
log. MoraL Vol. 4, Lib. 32, Sec. 2, Prob. 5, page 274 



MOKALITY OF THE JEStJlTS* 185 

''If an adulterous priest, aware of his danger, hav- 
ing visited an adulteress^ is assailed by her husband, 
kills the man in his own defence, he is not criminal." 
—Hmriquez, Sum. Theol. Moral. Vol. 1, Lib. 14, 
Cap. 10, page 869. 

" Papist children may accuse their parents for her- 
esy, although they know that their parents will be 
burnt for it.^Fagundez^ Precept. Decalog. Vol. 1, 
Lib. 4, Cap. 2, page 601, 655, and Vol. 2, Lib. 8, Cap. 
32, page 390. 

" A Priest may kill those who hinder him from 
taking possession of any ecclesiastical office." — Ami- 
cus^ Num. 131. 

" Servants may secretly steal from their masters as 
much as they judge their labor is worth more than 
the wages which they receive." To this agrees Ta- 
berna.-^ Cardenas^ Crisis Theolog. Diss. 23, Cap. 2, 
Art. 1, page 474. 

" A woman may take the property of her husband 
to supply her spiritual w^ants, and to act like other 
women." — Grordonus^ Theolog. Moral. Univ. Lib. 5, 
Quest. 3, Cap. 4, page 826. 

'' Is a witness bound to declare the truth before a 
law^ful judge ? No — if his deposition will injure him- 
self or his posterity ; or if he be a Priest, for a Priest 
cannot be forced to testify before a secular judge."— 
Taherna, Vol. 2, Pars. 2, Tract 2, Cap. 31, page 288. 

'' Priests may kill the Laity to preserve their 
goods," &c. &Q»-— Molina^ Vol. 3, Disput. 16, page 
1768. 



THE CHURCH OF ROME 

AND 

AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 



''The Public Schools Must Go I 



THE FIAT HAS GONE FORTH FROM THE VATICAN. 



POPE PIUS IX. 

Than whom neither Council nor Bishop has spoken as 
plainly on public education, — in the 45th proj)osition 
of the Syllabus issued by him in 1864, declares "That 
the Romish Church has a right to interfere in the 
discipline of the public schools, and in the choice of 
the teachers for these schools." And in proposition 47th 
that "public schools open to all children for the educa- 
tion of the young, should be under the control of the 
Romish Church, should not be subject to the civil power, 
nor made to conform to the opinions of the age." While 
in proposition 48th he says " Catholics cannot approve of 
a system of educating youth which is unconnected with 
the Catholic faith and power of the Church." 

Such a system he declares in his Apostolic Brief to the 
Archbishops of Freiburg 1864, "Must necessarily be 
guided by the spirit of error and lies." 

"Peter having thus spoken— to use the words of the 
Irish Bishops — through Pius, the question is settled ; as 
in him (the pope) all speak, all affirm, all deny; for he 
is the infallible doctor and pastor of all Christians." 
But, in the words of Father Jenkins, " We feel inclined 
to pile up the evidence on this subject to the very skies." 



THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MUST GO. 137 

So we quote the testimony of Cardinals, and Councils, 
Archbishops and Bishops, Priests and Press. Listen to 

CARDINAL ANTONELLI 

who was verily " the power behind the throne." To Mr. 
Dexter A. Hawkins, who, some years ago, investigated 
under a commission the conditions of the j3ublic schools 
in the j^apal states, the Cardinal said, he "thought it 
better that the children should grow up in ignorance 
than to be educated in such a system of schools as the 
state of MASSACHUSETTS supj^ortcd ; that the essential 
part of the education of the people was the Catechism ; 
and, while the arithmetic and geography, reading and 
writing and other similar studies might be useful they 
were not essential." 

The public schools must go ! So say 

THE COUNCILS OF EOME. 

The Third Council of Cincinnati^ in 1861 said, "The 
public school system, if carried out, is well calculated to 
bring up a generation of practical infidels." 

The Sacred Congregation of Propaganda in its in- 
structions to the American Bishops, 1875, assigns as a rea- 
son why the Roman Catholic Church is hostile to the public 
schools, that "teachers indiscriminately of every sect, are 
employed — ^who are left free to sow errors and the seeds 
of vice in tender minds." 

The Second Plenary Council of Bcdtimore^ 1866, 
ascribed to the public schools " that 'corruption of morals 
which we have to deplore in those of tender years." 

TJie Second Provincial Council of Oregon^ 1881, said 
that "swearing, cursing and profane expressions are 
distinctive marks of public school children," and all were 
enjoined to preserve the little ones from the poisoned 
atmosphere of these godless institutions." 



138 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MUST GO. 

The Third Plenary Coimcil of Baltimore^ 1885, said 
our system of "state education will, from the very nature 
of it, degenerate into infidel and godless education." 

ARCHBISHOPS 

declare the public schools must go ! 

Archbishop Segher in his lecture on the "Secular 
School System" says, "it is grossly and monstrously 
immoral;" it is "a blot, a blemish, and a disgrace on this 
country, a living scandal and an opprobrium which 
covers its promoters with shame and infamy." 

Archbishop Williams^ of Boston, when a committee 
waited upon him to comjDlain of Rev. Mr.. Scully of 
Cambridgeport, refusing to give absolution to parents 
who sent their children to the public schools. The 
Archbishop "sustained the priest and gave the rebels to 
understand that their Bishop considered himself insulted 
by the bare suspicion that they would find any support 
from him as favorable to public schools." 

Archbishop Perche in his Lenten pastoral of 1872 
says, "our public school system is emphatically a social 
plague. It is not imperfect only, it is also vicious ; not 
only defective, but radically mischievous." He further 
stigmatizes it " as intolerant, as radically iniquitous." 

"Your very blood," he says, "would curdle in your 
veins at the bare recital by journalists far from hostile to 
the ]:)ublic schools, of the scandals of which they are the 
scene." 

Archbishop Elder in 1874 said, "On this subject we 
have no new instruction to give The declarations of 
Holy Mother Church have been of late years made so 
numerous and so clear that there is nothing for a Catholic 
to do, but to obey them, or else renounce his religion." 



THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MUST GO. lo9 

The 23ublic scJiools must go ! So say 

THE BISHOPS. 

Bishop Gilmour of Cleveland, in his Lenten j^astoral 
of 1878, authorizes confessors to refuse the sacraments 
to parents who send their children to jjublic schools. 

JBlsho}^ St, Palais of Indiana in a pastoral of 1872 
"objects to the public schools on account of the infidel 
source from which they originated." 

Bishop Baltes of Alton, in his Lenten pastoral of 1870 
calls our public schools " Seminaries of infidelity, and as 
such most fruitful sources of immorality." 

Bishop McClosJcey affirms that in the public schools 
"the Catholic youth are exposed to corruj^tion of 
morals." 

Bishop Toeble of Covington, in his Lenten pastoral 
of 1872 declares, "The public schools to be infidel and 
godless and must therefore be avoided." 

Bishop McQuaid of Rochester, in his lectures on 
"Christian Free Schools," says, "I feel to-night in my 
heart, the blot and disgrace that is upon the country, by 
the wrong and unjust system of public schools, that is 
now unheld in the land simply and solely by the power 
of the majority." 

The public schools must go ! So echo 

THE PRIEST So 

Father Walker on the evening of Sabbath, March 14, 
1875, said in St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church, 84th 
St., New York: "The public schools are the nurseries of 
vice. They are godless schools, and they who send their 
children to them cannot expect the mercy of God. . . . 
I would as soon administer the sacraments to a dog as to 
such Catholics." 



1-iO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MUST GO. 

Priest Phelan at a convention held at St. Louis, Octo- 
ber 17, 1873, said, "The children of the (public) schools 
turn out to be learned horse thieves, scholastic counterfeit 
ers, and well versed in all the schemes of deviltry. He 
frankly confessed the Catholics stood before the country 
as the enemies of the public schools. They would as 
soon send their children into a pest-house, or bury 
them, as let them go to the public schools. They were 
afraid the child who left home in the morning, would 
come back with something in its heart as black as hell." 

The Roman CatholiG priest Capel^ according to a 
newspaper report of a conversation, which was widely 
circulated and never contradicted, said, " The time is not 
far away when the Roman Catholics, at the order ol the 
poi^e, will refuse to pay their school tax, and will send 
bullets to the breasts of the government agents; rather 
than pay. . . . The order can come any day from Rome. . . 
It will come as quickly as the click of the trigger, and it 
will be obeyed, of course, as coming from God Almighty 
himself." 

The public schools must go! So voices 

THE ROMAN" CATHOLIG PRESS. 

The Catholie Telegraph of Cincinnati says: "The 
secular school is a social cancer j)resaging the death of 
national morality. . . The sooner it is destroyed the bet- 
ter ; it will be a glorious day for Catholics in this country, 
when under the blows of justice (?) and morality (?) our 
school system will be shivered to pieces." 

The Freeman^ s Journal of Dec. 11, 1869, exclaims, 
" Let the public school system go to where it came from 
—the devil." 

Tlie Catholic Worlds January 1870, says, "We are op- 
posed to the common schools as they are, because our church 



THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MUST GO. 141 

condemns them." This same magazine for April, 1871, 
says : " We do not indeed prize so highly as some of 
our countrymen appear to do the simple ability to read, 
write and cipher. . . . The best ordered and administered 
state is that in which the few are well-educated and lead, 
and the many are trained to obedience, are willing to be 
directed, content to follow, and do not aspire to be lead- 
ers. . . . We believe the peasantry in old Catholic coun- 
tries two centuries aw were better educated althoug^h for 
the most part unable to read or write, than are the great 
body of the American people to-day." Thus Father 
Hecker echoes the sentiments of Cardinal Antonelli, and 
would have the public school give place to the reign of 
the " dark ag^es." 

The Catholic World of July, 1870, says "education 
rnust be controlled by Catholic authorities, and under 
education, the opinions of the individual and the .utter- 
ances of the press are included, and many opinions are to 
be forbidden by the secular arm, under the authority of 
the church, even to war and bloodshed." 

Tlie JSTeioTork Tablet of Nov. 20, 1869, speaking of 
the vote of the School Board of Cincinnati to exclude 
the Bible and all religious instruction from the public 
schools of the city said, "If this has been done with a 
view of reconciling Roman Catholics to the Common 
School System, its purpose will not be realized. It does 
not meet, nor in any degree lessen our objection to the 
Public School System." Why? In its issue of Dec. 25, 
1869, it says, " We hold education to be a function of 
the churcli, not of the state, and in our case we do not, 
and will not accept the state as educator." 



142 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MUST GO. 

Why this assault upon the life of the public school? 
Why should it be overthrown ? What evil hath it done ? 
Has it injured any one? Has it inflicted a single social, 
civil or religious disability on any person ? Has it tram- 
pled on any conscience? Oppressed any one, pesecuted 
any one ? Destroy the public school system, and what 
becomes of American freedom? The public school is a 
Republican institution. It creates an atmosphere of 
freedom. It radiates the light and warmth of liberty. 
It is the training school of American citizenship. Shall 
then the public school go, at the bidding of its most im- 
placable foe ? Verily not ! 



A MERI CA. 

My country ! 'tis of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty — 

Of thee I sing : 
Land where my fathers died ; 
Land of the pilgrims' pride ; 
From every mountain side 

Let freedom ring. 

'}.\y native country ! thee — 
L. nd of the noble free — 

Thy name I love : 
Hove thy rocks and rills, 
Thy woods and templed hills, 
My heart with rapture thrills, 

Like that above. 

Our fathers' God ! to thee — 
Author of liberty. 

To thee we sing ; 
Long may our land be bright, 
With freedom's holy light 
Protect us by thy might, 

Great God, our King I 



JESUITS IN AMERICA. 



It is no unusual thing to see after the name of a Roman Catholic ecclesi- 
astic, the letters ''S. J.," which signify that he is a Jesuit or member 
of the so-called ** Society of Jesus.^* 

This society, founded by Ignatius Loyola, August 15th, 1534; condition- 
ally sanctioned by the bull of Pope Paul III. September 25th, 1540; uncon- 
ditionally approved by him in 1543; and sending out its missionaries and 
establishing its agencies and college in Spain in 1546, Japan in 1549, 
Abyssinia in 1557, England in 1580, China in 1584, and in America and 
Asia before 1556 ; has had a most troubled existence, and has in some way 
succeeded in winning a vast amount of ill-will of both rulers and people. 

For their crimes, intrigues, and conspiracies, the Jesuits have been ban- 
ished from various countries again and a2:ain, as will be seen by the follow- 
ing table, compiled from A Short Sketch of the, Jesuits^ also from the 
EncylopcBdia of Chronology, by B. B. Woodward and Wm. L. R. Gates, 
and from other trustworthy authorities. The Jesuits were expelled from 

Sargossa in 

La Palinterre " 

Vienna " 

Avignon " 

Antwerp, Portugal, &c. " 

England " 

England again '* 

England *' ** 

England *' " 

Japan " 
Hungary and Transylvania ** 

Bordeaux *' 

The whole of France, *' 

Holland *' 

Touron and Berne " 

England again " 

England " " 

Denmark, Venice, &c. *' 

Venice again " 

A«mura, Japan *' 

Bohemia *' 

Moravia *' 

Naples and Netherlands '* 

China and India *' 

Turkey ♦* 

Abyssinia ** 
Malta 

Russia " 

Savoy " 

Paraguay " 

Portugal Sep. 3rd, '* 

Prohibited in France ** 

France agahi " 
Spain, colonies and Sicilies' 

and Naples '* 

Parma and Malta " 

These are the gentlemen, polite, polished, and trained, the spies, the vas- 
sals, the sworn minions of a foreign despot, who, having been kicked out of 
all Catholic countries again and again by popes, princes and kings, both 
Catholic and Protestant, now swarm into England and America, and under 
the protection which the influence of an open Bible gives to honest men, are 
proceeding to destroy the public schools, debauch the government, and work 
the mischief which has ever been their legitimate business. We shall see 
how these birds of night will bear the light of day. 



1555 


All Christendom, by Bull of 




1558 


Clement XIV. July 21'* 


1773 


1566 


Russia 




1776 


1570 


France again 




1804 


1578 


Canton Grisson 




1804 


1579 


Naples again 




1810 


1581 


France *' 




1816 


1584 


Moscow, St Petersburg and 




1586 


Canton Soleure 




1816 


1587 


Belgium 




1818 


1588 


Brest (by the people) 




1819 


1589 


Russia, again 




1820 


1594 


Spain, *' 




1820 


1596 


Rouen Cathedral, by people " 


1825 


1597 


Belgium schools 


(( 


1826 


1002 


France 8 colleges closed 


(( 


1828 


1G04 


Great Britain and Ireland 


(( 


1829 


1606 


France again 


'( 


1831 


1612 


From entering Saxony 


ii 


1831 


1613 


Portugal 


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1834 


1618 


Spain again 


a 


1835 


1619 


Rheims (by the people) 


a 


183S 


1622 


From entering Lucerne 


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1842 


1623 


Lucerne again 


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1845 


1628 


France " 


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1845 


1632 


Switzerland 


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1847 


1634 


Bavaria and Genoa 


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1848 


1723 


Papal States by Pius IX. 






1724 


Sardinia,Vienna,Austria 


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1848 


1733 


Several Italian States 


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1859 


1759 


Sicily again 


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18G0 


1762 


Spain " 


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1868 


1764 


Guatemala 


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1871 




Switzerland 


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1871 


1767 


German Empire 


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1872 


1768 


France again 


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AT THEIR OLD TRICKS. 



Senator Blair speaking in the U. S. Senate Feb. 15, 1888, on the 
National Education Bill said: 

" Mr. President, I believe some have called this a bill for the pro- 
motion of mendicity. It has been so styled by the New York Post 
and the Washington Fast and other organs of Jesuitism in this 
country, for this is a great fight initiating and already outlining 
itself for the future between the common schools of the United 
States and those influences which would subvert this great system. 
I tell you, sir, that upon this very floor, soon after we had passed 
this bill two years a2;o, and while it was in the hands of a packed 
committee of the House of Representatives, where it was finally 
strangled — on this very floor a Senator showed me, and 1 read it 
with my own eyes, the original letter of a Jesuit priest, in which he 
begged a member of Congress to oppose this bill and kill it, saying 
that they had organized all over the country for its destruction, that 
they had succeeded in the committee of the House, and they would 
destroy the bill inevitably, and, if they had only known it early 
enough they could have prevented its passage through the Senate. 
They have begun in season this time, but they will not destroy this 
bill. Twelve years ago when I was a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, and when we were undertaking to enact a constitutional 
amendment, which was to prevent the appropriation of the public 
money to the support of sectarian schools in this country, a friend of 
mine pointed out to me upon that floor nine Jesuits who were there 
log-rolling against that proposed amendment of the Constitution. I 
did not know them. He claimed to know them; and he pointed 
them out, nine at one time." 



CRIME AND IMMORALITY. 

A correspondent of the ^ii,9'/i5^ Churchman furnishes the follow- 
ing statistics, copied from a papal source, viz.: '* L^amico di Casa, 
Almanico Fopulai'e, Published at Turin. 

BIKTHS. 
Legitimate. Illegitimate. Legitimate. Illegitimate. 

London 75,097 3,207 2i% to 1 

Paris 19,921 9,707 '2 1-19 " 1 

Brussels 3,448 1,833 V/g " 1 

Monaco 1,854 1,760 1 " iVs 

Vienna 8,821 10,360 I " 11-6 

Rome 1,215 3,160 1 " 2% 

Rome, therefore, as regards the standard of illegitimacy, is six 
times worse than Paris, and sixty-six times loorse than London. 

In relation to murders ihQ statistics are equally unfavorable. 
Here they are taken from the same source: 

MURPEHS. Proportional average. 

England has 1 in 178,000 people 1 

Holland " 163,000 '' 11-5 

Prussia " 100,000 " 18-10 

Austria " 77,000 *' 217 

Spain ** 4,113 " 441/4 

Naples *' 2,750 ** 64 4-5 

Roman States 750 '* 2371/2 

Comment is needless, unless it be to say that two-thirds of the 
murders which occur in Great Britain are committed by Papists, 



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